But Le Jin's plan failed.
In just a moment, the Han army on the opposite side collapsed. Without the restraint of sufficient military officials, the Han army simply could not withstand a high-intensity battle.
As soon as he saw the friendly troops behind him running, he would run as well. Even if there were some loyal and brave men who wanted to fight hard, they would have no choice but to retreat because they could not get the support of the friendly troops.
When Le Jin's subordinates saw the other side, they immediately collapsed and pursued them frantically.
But soon, Yue Jin's flag drummer sounded three golden gongs, clearly prohibiting pursuit.
Although Le Jin also regretted missing the Han army on the opposite side, he was always cautious and believed that pursuit in this situation was a very dangerous thing.
Moreover, this slope is not conducive to pursuit. It is wet and difficult to walk on. If you slip during pursuit, you may lose your life.
However, because of Le Jin's caution, Xu Rong's retreat was much more stable.
At this time, Xu Rong had just fallen. When he was pulled up by the guards, he was covered in mud, and even his beautiful beard was covered with mud.
With the support of the guards, he retreated back to the north slope, where there were two thousand people from his colleague Wuhuan Xiaowei, Sima Xingju in the middle.
There, Xu Rong regrouped with the remaining soldiers and prepared to defend the second front.
There were still some remnant soldiers who failed to catch up with Xu Rong and were unwilling to stay on the battlefield to die, so they had to move east to avoid the Taishan army coming up below.
There, they were protected by friendly forces that had moved forward and began to regroup.
Then just like that, with the drums still roaring, Le Jin led his men to move forward, preparing to defeat the Xing Ju Department in front of them.
But at this moment, the slope of the central battlefield began to shake.
Le Jin, who came from the sudden riding system, naturally knew what the sound was and quickly shouted:
"Array."
At this moment, all the officers of the Cavalry Army should be grateful to Le Jin for his caution. If he had not given up the pursuit, they would have been doomed at this moment.
Under the nervous gazes of the cavalry officers, a group of cavalrymen wrapped in iron armor suddenly jumped out from behind the slope. First there were a few, then a little bit, and finally there was a dense mass of cavalry, rushing downhill in overwhelming numbers.
Judging only from the flag and the knight's attire, it can be seen that this is the Wuhuan cavalry belonging to the Wuhuan captain, Gong Qichou.
When the middle route army lost, Lu Zhi on the slope had already made a decision. In order to support Wei Duan's army, which was about to collapse, Lu Zhi sent out his elite cavalry, the Wuhuan Cavalry of Gong Qichou.
The sudden appearance of Wuhuan's sudden cavalry naturally broke Le Jin's next pursuit.
Facing the rushing barbarians, Le Jin was filled with anger. The Han Dynasty relied too much on these barbarians, so that they allowed these people to cause harm to China.
When the Chinese army marched north, he saw that many Lishe settlements along the road were massacred by these barbarians.
He was originally going to settle the general ledger with these barbarians, but now they dared to come and take away the military merit he had obtained from Le Jin. Can this be tolerated?
Le Jin couldn't bear it.
So after he organized the formation, Le Jin took the initiative to attack him with his soldiers.
Le Jin was not tall, and he jumped left and right in the gap between Wuhuan's sudden cavalry. In an instant, he captured the three of them, and then turned around and retreated.
But that's about it.
Le Jin's personal bravery was indeed extraordinary, and his cavalry troops did return to defense in a timely manner. But I'm sorry, your Taishan Army is a large square array with seven sides lined up from east to west, and each one is as good as your Lejin?
The Wuhuan Tuqi also did the same. They did not choose to attack the well-organized Yue Jin Division, but chose the other side of Yu Du's camp, which had a rather scattered formation.
When the high-speed sprinting horses carrying Wuhuan warriors holding various bones and iron blades ruthlessly crashed into the trap camp, the trap camp suffered a big loss.
The trapped camp was unable to stop the group's charging Wuhuan cavalry because the Han army they had previously driven away was in an extended skirmish formation.
The warriors in this trap camp are selected from the Hebei Yellow Turbans. They are completely impeccable in terms of personal martial prowess, and each of them has good martial arts skills. But the only drawback is that this formation is not strict and the military style is relatively loose.
The leader of his tribe, Yu Du, had been persuaded several times by the Taishan military robes before, but with little success. Yu Du’s answers are all:
"That's what we Yellow Turban warriors are like. The more we control them, the more we get into trouble."
In this way, Yu Du paid the price for his carelessness. The officers and soldiers of the trapped army fled in all directions, and Yu Du himself was injured and retreated. Even a military flag of the trapped camp was taken away.
After Yu Du retreated, he was quickly caught up by Li Hu from behind, and was killed with a knife.
He originally looked down upon the Yellow Turban generals like Yu Du, who looked more like bandits than soldiers. This time, he took advantage of you for violating military law and chopped you into pieces with one knife.
Yu Du failed to live up to the military title "Feng Zhen" given to him by Zhang Chong, and was sentenced to martial law. The officers and soldiers who were trapped in the battle also escaped and were injured, and never participated in the subsequent battles again.
In short, the trapped camp almost ceased to exist.
After defeating and dispersing the trapped camp, Wuhuan's more than 2,000 cavalry troops continued to advance.
Led by the Wuhuan Colonel Lieutenant Gong Qichou, they sprinted towards the distant Taishan Army's banner.
To be honest, Gong Qi Chou was just a middle-aged man. In history, Zhang Chun rebelled and captured him easily. But at this moment, on the Zhongrenting battlefield, he made a historical highlight.
He, Gong Qichou, was the only Han army in this battle who dared to charge Zhang Chong's army.
The other generals, including Lu Zhi, had closed their minds and only knew how to passively respond to the Taishan Army's attack.
It doesn't matter whether you say that this Gong Qichou is brave or brave, or that he is ignorant and arrogant. He chose to act like a soldier and chose the path of charge.
After once again defeating a phalanx of the trapped army, the Wuhuan cavalry could finally see the Chinese army's banner not far away.
At this time, Gong Qichou had changed his mount twice, and his neck was sprained and he could not turn his head. Perhaps this also implicitly hints at his fate, which is that he can only move forward, not retreat.
But when Gong Qichou's Youzhou Tuqi marched here, it was almost over.
The Feilong Army and Feibao Army's assault cavalry who arrived in time occupied the Wuhuan's assault cavalry's traffic line, forcing the Youzhou assault cavalry to turn around. Unable to turn away, Gong Qichou could only see a military formation on the right, from where he could bypass the enemy's cavalry and penetrate directly into the enemy's waist and abdomen.
Therefore, Gong Qichou carried the military flag, took the lead again, and attacked the infantry battalion with the Wuhuan Tuqi who could still follow him.
He didn't know that the infantry battalion he was planning to attack was called the Iron Spear Battalion, and its general was named Zhu Ling.
Although the number of people in the Iron Spear Battalion is not large, there are only about a thousand people. However, the army was formed by warriors who were good at using large guns and selected from the competition. It can be said that the skill level of this battalion of thousands of people with large guns is the best in the entire army.
The same is true for Zhu Ling. Although his standing and reputation in the Taishan military system are unknown, only Zhang Chong understands that this person is a rare good general.
When Zhu Ling led the Iron Spear Army to move forward according to the scheduled time, he saw the Hu cavalry that broke into his own line and began to turn towards him. One thing to say, the timing of this change is really good. At least Zhu Ling really didn't notice the intention of this cavalry at first.
Even Zhu Ling didn't notice it, let alone the officials below who had a narrower field of vision.
On their side, they listened to the drumbeats, carried the steps, and corrected the team as they advanced. Then a group of ferocious barbarians came out from their right wing.
In the panic of the Iron Spear Battalion officials, the Wuhuan Cavalry slaughtered them wildly. Lu Sun, the commander of the camp on the right wing, was holding a military flag and shouting slogans as he advanced. He was slashed three times by the sudden Wuhuan cavalry and fell in a pool of blood.
His military flag was picked up by the guards, and the Wuhuan Cavalry came to seize it again, but they were already surrounded by the Iron Spear Army officers who had reacted.
In a moment, the dozen or so Wuhuan warriors who rushed in were chopped into pieces by the angry officials.
The quality of the Iron Spear Army is obviously much better than that of the previous trapped camp. In the absence of command from above, they took the initiative to form small square formations and began to counterattack the Wuhuan cavalry.
In fact, no matter how you belittle these Wuhuan people, one indisputable fact is that these Wuhuan people, who have both the strengths of Hu and Han and have experienced Han wars for a long time, are indeed quite capable of fighting.
In another time and space, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion was quelled, the Han Dynasty ordered Zhang Wen to suppress the Qiang people in the west. At that time, Zhang Wen asked Gongsun Zan to bring 3,000 Wuhuan Tuqi to support.
You must know that this has to cross half of northern China, and the food and grass supplies along the way can organize an army of ten thousand people on the spot. Knowing that he would pay such a price, Zhang Wen still did this, which shows how powerful the Wuhuan Tuqi were.
Moreover, this deployment of troops later caused Zhang Chun's rebellion. Zhang Chun was holding the Wuhuan Tuqi, and the land of Youji, which had just been stabilized by this battle, once again fell into chaos.
Not to mention, in the future, Cao Cao, who had completely ruled northern China, paid a huge price in order to destroy Wuhuan.
So, who can underestimate these Wuhuan people?
In front of them, the officers of the Iron Spear Army were like this.
Although they are all veterans and selected elite warriors, they still have no experience facing Wuhuan's sudden cavalry. Facing these tall horses and armored Wuhuan knights, their hearts were still full of fear.
The shouts of the Wuhuan cavalry and the shaking of the earth as they charged, coupled with the light reflected by their armor in the sun, all exaggerated their power.
At this moment, Zhu Ling was held up by two guards. He ignored the danger and said loudly:
"Brothers, hold on to the formation. The assault cavalry brothers behind have arrived. We have wiped out these wild dogs."
Zhu Ling himself was from Qinghe, Jizhou, and had trouble dealing with these Wuhuan people.
Speaking of which, the Han Dynasty was very stubborn in its policy towards the Wuhuan people. The upper echelons regarded the Wuhuan people as a means to check and balance the Huns and Xianbei people, and they were nostalgic for the bravery of these Hu cavalry, so they were quite tilted in their policies.
But in the land of Youji, who doesn't have a blood feud with these Wuhuan people? These Wuhuan people sometimes rebelled and sometimes surrendered. Sometimes they became allies of the Han army, and sometimes they became enemies of the Han army. You made the people in Jizhou unable to explain what kind of emotion it was.
Zhu Ling's lead Jia Yong brought significant results. If one general dies, the three armies will fight for their lives.
These tall Wuhuan knights, wearing Han armor, charged while tapping their breastplates with the hilts of their swords, making a terrifying sound.
Human language has always been limited, and no matter how detailed the description is, it cannot be as rich as a picture. And no matter how rich the pictures are, it’s not as good as being there.
At this moment, only they know how Zhu Ling and his Iron Spear Army brothers feel.
Is it helplessness, fear, shock, anger, and revenge? These feelings belong to them and are not understood by outsiders.
But in the eye of the beholder, here's what happened.
Facing the charge of Wuhuan's sudden cavalry, the Iron Spear Army refused to give in and firmly guarded the front. They kept stabbing the galloping horses with the rifles in their hands, and small formations kept being collapsed, and Wuhuan knights and their horses were stabbed like a bloody gourd.
The entire situation is at a stalemate, and either party may collapse at any time.
But victory ultimately belongs to the Iron Spear Army.
Because of their reinforcements, the assault cavalry brothers of the Flying Tiger Army and the Flying Leopard Army finally caught up.
This is not a fluke or luck, it is determined by the system of the Taishan Army and the friendship between friendly forces. No army would let its allies fight alone without doing anything, let alone under the eyes of the king.
At this time, Li Hu and Xi Shen finally came over with two battalions of assault cavalry after eliminating the Wuhuan assault cavalry that had previously participated.
Wuhuan's sudden cavalry, which had lost its impact speed, was no match for the accelerating Taishan army's sudden cavalry.
Wuhuan knights were picked off by Ma Zhen and fell from their horses. There was chaos and fighting everywhere. The frightened war horses dragged their master's body and fled frantically from the killing field.
At this time, the desperate Gong Qichou truly realized that his charge just now was not a brave one, but a blind charge.
Now he is surrounded by Taishan Legion.
Gong Qichou couldn't turn his neck, so he eagerly asked the military officer next to him:
"Wei Duan and Lao Xing are right behind. Have they come to support?"
This military officer was Han. He looked back and cried desperately:
"Woo woo woo, Xing Sima's camp flag has not moved."
Gong Qichou couldn't believe it, he murmured:
"It shouldn't be, it shouldn't be, these Taishan thieves shouldn't be so good at fighting. Why are they better than my Wuhuan Cavalry? And Lao Xing, how could you betray me? After I leave, the next one will The captain who protects Wuhuan is you.”
But he could say no more. The guard next to him grabbed Gong Qichou and trembled:
"Captain, let's protect you and fight out. Just now I saw the enemy's cavalry heading towards us. If we don't run away, it will be too late."
At this time, Gong Qichou's wisdom returned. He quickly put his helmet on the guard's head, then untied his cloak and tied it on the guard's back.
Looking at the guard who was crying but without tears, Gong Qichou said seriously:
"If all of us die, our death will be in vain. If I die and you live, you will also die if you live. But as long as I live, no matter who among you dies, I will support your wives." , this is my father-in-law Qi Chou’s promise.”
Gong Qichou's words sounded unpleasant, but they made perfect sense.
The guard of Gong Qichou also accepted his fate. He was about to tell his general the location of his home when he saw his general running away.
The guard murmured:
"The captain should know where our home is."
This is the fate of the soldiers in the end.
Because he was wearing the general's attire and standing under the banner, he was killed by Li Hu who came over.
But our Li Hu was not happy for long when he heard that Xi Shen over there had already taken Gong Qichou's head to report his merits.
Wait, what Xi Shen took was Gong Qichou's head. Who am I?
Then Lao Li pulled out the teeth of the head and saw a pair of bad teeth. He didn't know that he had been coaxed.
He threw the head away and cursed:
"Damn it, this Xi Shen dares to steal my head, Lao Li? Let Naigong wait and see."