Chapter 681 Changle
Here at the foot of Beimang Mountain, King Zhang held his arm and talked about the situation between the army and the people, while over there, there was blood and flesh flying everywhere outside the valley gate.
At the beginning, dozens of Leopard Tao Army's assault cavalry, led by Cavalry General Wang Xian, rushed all the way, taking advantage of the momentum to run across the horse racing track outside the valley gate, straight to the bottom of the city.
Wang Xian is Guo Mo's nephew. He has always been a brave man. In this battle, he has killed three Han army camp generals. At this time, he continued his efforts and tried to charge at Gumen again.
He asked his subordinates to light the torches in their hands and burn the city gate. Smoke filled the air for a while, and the Han troops on top of the city hurriedly poured water down to extinguish the fire at the city gate.
Before Wang Xian was finished, he asked his brothers to light all the remaining arrows, and then shoot them towards the shed curtain on the top of the city. Unfortunately, the wall of Kyoto Valley Gate was five or six feet high, and the rockets could not pass through. Except for a small number of arrows, they could not pass through. A few shed curtains were lit on top of the city, and the rest fell below the city.
At this time, Wang Xian had realized that Gumen could not be captured by himself.
So he shouted at the Han soldiers and civilians on top of the city:
"The heavenly army has arrived, why don't you, the ugly ones, come out of the city and surrender?"
After saying that, he took the remaining Tuqi away and walked away. They were going to change sides.
At this time, Zhu Jun's face on the tower was livid, he patted the battlements with hatred and said:
"Guo Gong, you have to give me a good beating!"
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The Gumen city gate slowly opened, and Guo Gong, who was fully armored, walked out first.
I don't know if it's because of his nature or the tempering of his long-term military life, but in short, Guo Gong enjoys everything on the battlefield.
The stench of feces, urine, and blood on the battlefield was fragrant to his nose, the noisy and chaotic noise was wonderful to his ears, and even the bloody and terrifying battlefield scenes were enchanting and sexy in his eyes.
The group of cavalrymen who just burned the city gate did nothing but leave some traces of smoke on the city gate. On the contrary, the piles of corpses on the horse racing track not far away were even more frightening to see.
From the noisy battlefield, Guo Gong quickly caught a fighter plane.
To the northeast of him, an infantry battalion was waiting outside the barrier, apparently preparing to enter the barrier and stop.
In the blink of an eye, Guo Gong decided to use that military horse to anoint his own knife.
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Guo Mo was putting away his bed and preparing to move the flag and golden drum to the Changpingcang stronghold.
At this point, his battle has ended. At this time, except for the last section chief, Zhang Optimism, all the other barriers on the northern battlefield were hung with apricot-yellow flags. He originally wanted to make persistent efforts to capture Chang Optimism, but the Chinese army had just sent information.
The person responsible for controlling the armies in this battle was Yu Jin. His military order to Guo Mo was:
"Bao Tao's army changed positions and repaired, and withdrew from the battlefield to eat."
Guo Mo pondered for a moment, but he didn't think that Yu Jin wanted to pick his own peaches, because this is how military merit is calculated, and the amount is what it deserves.
It was a pity that he had left a regret on his side. When historians recorded the Battle of Kyoto in the future, they wrote that he, Guo Mo, was the first to fight for the entire army. There was still a long-term optimism that he had not won. It was not good after all.
But...that's all, let the boys retreat and have some food.
Just when Guo Mo removed the bed, a commander hurried over and told Guo Mo a message:
"Military leader, the enemy troops in the city suddenly came out from outside the valley gate. The soldiers were very sharp. General Tian Ying was killed just now."
When Guo Mo heard this, he became furious. He picked up the iron spear beside Hu's bed and asked the guards to pierce his armor. He left this sentence to Ling Qi:
"Go to the Chinese Army soon and tell Yu Shuai that I, Guo Mo, will withdraw after winning this battle."
After finishing speaking, he smiled and explained to the soldiers:
"Believe it or not, if I hadn't said this, I wouldn't have figured out how to arrange our arrangement with Lao Guo later. As you can see, this is not because we want to take credit, but the enemy soldiers deserve the blame!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Guo Mo got on his horse, took his fine iron short spear, and rushed forward with a hundred iron guards.
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Based on long-term optimism, the first real field battle has begun since the war began.
Originally, Guo Gong was here to pick up some bargains, so when he came up he led his armored soldiers to attack the Taishan Army stationed outside the barrier, and beheaded the opponent's general with one blow.
But what is surprising is that Guo Gongming clearly beheaded the enemy's general, but his troops still maintained their ability to command and continued to form formations. Soon he discovered that another flag had been raised in the opponent's formation and took over. Command the entire battalion.
Guo Gong smiled ferociously, and led his armored soldiers to penetrate the enemy formation again, and beheaded the enemy general again.
But as soon as the flag fell here, another flag was raised over there. Guo Gong was stunned. Didn't he understand that these enemy generals were not afraid of death?
He did not believe in evil, and once again led his elite troops to charge forward. After a bloody battle, he once again beheaded the generals and captured the flag.
This time, no one really raised the flag anymore, because the head of the Taishan Army camp, which only had 700 or 800 people, had lost its ability to dispatch due to the large number of deaths of mid-level officers. The remaining Taishan Army could only stay on the battlefield and fight on their own. .
But the sacrifice of this battalion was worth it. They successfully held back Guo Gong's tribe and prevented them from withdrawing into the city in time.
When Guo Mo, the leader of the Leopard Tao Army from behind, arrived with his guards, several nearby battalion heads had already mobilized spontaneously and successfully detained Guo Gong's tribe outside the city.
Therefore, Guo Gong could only gather his troops and formed a huge vertical formation with three thousand troops.
Guo Gong, who had a certain understanding of the battlefield situation, had already realized the danger. The enemy must be dispatching troops from the base camp. He would be in danger once enemy reinforcements arrived.
Therefore, he couldn't afford to delay, so he had to fight quickly and break out with a sharp arrow formation.
While Guo Gong was forming the formation, Guo Mo also rushed to the front line, took over the command of the third battalion, and began to form the formation.
The number of the two sides was about the same, but the condition of Guo Mo's side was much different. Because of the long-term armored fighting, the physical fitness of Bao Tao's army had reached its limit.
So Guo Mo knew that his opportunity was not to fight the enemy immediately, but to delay the enemy.
However, although his behavior was overly cautious, Guo Mo was not forgiving. He said to the generals on his left and right:
"The Han army in Kyoto still has eggs. I thought that he would stay in the city and not come out. I didn't expect that he would take the initiative to go out to fight. However, since he dares to come forward, let's chop off his head with a knife and see if he can survive. Hard! ”
All the soldiers sang loudly, and then waited for Guo Mo's military order.
After taking a closer look at the situation on the battlefield, Guo Mo issued the first order:
"Order the Tuqi to block the traffic lines from Gumen out of the city and harass the enemy's rear. No fighting is allowed without my order." After receiving this order, a guard went to look for the Tuqi.
After that, Guo Mo issued three more orders in succession:
"Order the Zuoying camp to guard the southwest of the enemy's position, set up a strong formation, and use rifles, bows, and crossbows to kill and injure the enemy troops. Tell Xiao Gao of the Zuoying camp to stand firm there. No matter what, as long as the enemy troops follow him If he breaks through the formation, behead him."
"Then order the right camp and the rear camp to join the army, select the elite soldiers, and rush forward to the enemy's front first, squeezing the enemy's line. Let the officers of each battalion form a trap, and use the armored soldiers of the two battalions together. Tell the second general to beat me hard!”
"Also, immediately go to the central army behind and ask Xu Huang from the Flying Tiger Army to help out. Say that we, Lao Guo, owe him a favor, and I will give him this military merit this time!"
Guo Mo is Guo Mo after all, and he says the most cowardly words in the cruelest tone.
The commanding cavalry rushed out one after another, and the three remaining battalions of the Leopard Tao Army began to slowly mobilize according to military orders.
Both sides faced each other, each making a final effort to accumulate strength.
On the Han army's side, Guo Gong saw the enemy general's intention when the Taishan army adjusted its formation.
This is because he wants to block his way back from behind, squeezes his space from the front, and wants to strangle himself alive. The way to deal with it is also very simple, which is to break through directly with a sharp arrow formation. The enemy's troops deployed in the rear are not large in number and cannot stop them at all.
But just as Guo Gong had this idea, he suddenly glanced at the top of the city behind, where General Pingxi's banner was floating there, so Guo Gong changed his mind.
He realized that his actions now may directly determine the morale of the Han army behind him. If he breaks out and returns to the city in embarrassment, the battle behind him will be difficult to fight.
But just when Guo Gong was about to do the opposite, and prepare to fight the Taishan army pressing against him, he suddenly realized that this was what the enemy general thought, and knew that he had to fight before he could leave. , so the frontal force was thickened.
These thoughts filled Guo Gong's mind at lightning speed, fighting left and right, but the warriors who came out of the battlefield never hesitated, they only believed in their own intuition.
Therefore, he did not move against the soldiers and horses who had already laid out the arrow array, and still maintained the posture of breaking out to the south, while he quietly gathered the elite of each department and stayed on the front with his armored soldiers.
War drums beat loudly.
Guo Mo has ordered the entire army to attack.
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The two armies were a hundred steps apart. Arrows from the Taishan Army and the Han Army continued to fly, and both sides began to intensively attack with arrows.
On the Han army's side, they were more numerous and had sufficient arrow coverage; while on the Taishan army's side, although there were only two battalions of more than a thousand men, the quality of the arrows was better, and the arrows shot by the Sushen warriors were more accurate.
So, at this place of a hundred steps, officials from both sides continued to fall.
Although this stage is not as cruel as hand-to-hand combat, it is also very challenging. Many people are still enjoying the joy of shooting the enemy at one moment, but are killed by the enemy's arrows at the next moment.
This huge uncertainty cannot be resisted by non-experienced soldiers. The normal situation is that after a few rounds of shooting, you will choose a hundred-man battle. ·
As luck would have it, this time both the enemy and the enemy on the Chang'an Watch were veterans, so we saw such a spectacle.
The archers on both sides just withstood the opponent's arrow rain and continued to scatter arrows, as if waiting to be executed, suffering huge casualties due to the intensive firepower.
Archers are targets of light armor. Even the Taishan Army, which pays attention to armor coverage, has not changed this, because heavy armor will affect the attack efficiency of archers.
After both sides fired the last bag of arrows, the jumping warriors on both sides met each other.
Because there are elites on both sides, there are not even a few infantrymen on the front line, they are all professional warriors of various colors. So when they first came into contact, bloodshed broke out on both sides, and the intensity of the war suddenly reached a high point.
Among the battle group, Guo Gong is undoubtedly the most eye-catching one. His iron spear specially used for riding combat has been put aside, and what he holds in his hand is a double-edged short axe.
This weapon is best used to break armor.
During the fight, Guo Gong spotted an armored soldier of the Taishan Army who had abandoned his pocket due to the sweltering heat. Then he rushed towards him, raised his ax and hit him in the head.
Half of the unprotected head was cut off by the ax, and a piece of white brain matter flew out.
The killed Taishan Army warrior was obviously a good player among them. After all, if he was not a good player, he would not be so bold, so when he died, the nearby Taishan Army warriors were visibly hesitant.
Don't forget, the Taishan Army is also a human being, and they are not made of any special materials. As long as he is a human being, he will be afraid and will be affected by the group atmosphere.
Guo Gong seized this opportunity and, relying on the strength of his armor, was completely unobstructed and rushed into the midst of these people.
He bumped, chopped, and chiseled with his axe, creating a sound of gold and iron.
This is a duel between armored soldiers, as if a group of blacksmiths are beating each other, but only by being in it will you understand that facing the powerful and heavy soldiers, the armor on your body cannot save your life.
Guo Gong kept killing people, and at the same time he was constantly struck by weapons from all directions. He was even hooked by a Chang Ge below. If the guards around him hadn't protected him in time, he would have been dragged into the circle on the opposite side. He was hacked to death in the formation.
It was only at this level that Guo Gong understood why all the armies that had faced off against the Taishan Army had failed. He had never been able to figure it out before, but only now did he understand that the answer turned out to be terrifyingly simple.
That is, the warriors of Taishan Army are stronger.
This is undoubtedly something that makes Guo Gong even more discouraged. Why do the Taishan Army have so many powerful warriors? Could it be that they all fell from the sky? Or does the northern land where they take root just raise warriors like this?
In fact, the result may discourage Guo Gong, a typical Han warrior, because indeed, a large number of elite warriors in the Taishan Army really fell from the world.
When Zhang Chong decided to attack Liaodong and Pingzhou against all opinions, many people did not understand why he did so. But now that the Taishan Army has organized and trained more than 100,000 new troops, they finally understand that the king is the king after all, always far-sighted, always right and great.
No one expected that the despicable Northeast, which they had always looked down upon, would actually breed so many warriors who were good at fighting. After they were equipped with Han equipment, their combat power was even more powerful than the warriors from the Central Plains.
In fact, the reason is not complicated. They are both practicing martial arts. One is to survive, and the other is just to work. The degree of hard work of both sides is different.
The bitter cold in the Northeast forced these warriors to be strong enough to hunt enough prey for the tribe before each winter, otherwise the tribe would disappear into the forest in one winter.
However, the thing that did not constitute the least difference between these despised barbarians and the Han people in the Central Plains was the bow and horse weapons.
Those who work in culture will break their heads and go to death to practice. Is it right or not? But martial arts is something that only one person can master. Whoever practices more, practices more frequently, and has better physical fitness will be more powerful.
This reduced the Central Plains warriors to the same level as these Sushen people. Originally, the Han family still had the advantage with systems and armor, but now it no longer exists.
Therefore, at this moment, Guo Gong found out in despair and anger that the Taishan Army had so many warriors who were good at fighting.
It’s not his fault, because it was Zhang Chong who faced him! This is the dimensionality reduction impact of increment on stock.