Chapter 735 River Beach
Those who followed Zhang Chong were the supreme elite of the Taishan Army who circled the tent and attacked the general.
There were not many people, only two hundred, but they were all solemn, with red feathers on their heads, yellow cloaks on their backs, iron-wrapped silk spears in their hands, and bright armor on top.
The so-called bright light armor means that when you see the light of the sun, it brings peace to the world.
At this time, Zhang Chong himself was wearing mirror armor, and he led the two hundred armored riders towards the southwest of the river beach like a ball of fire emitting infinite light.
On the way, Zhang Chong began to mobilize his troops. He asked Dian Wei and Li Damu to each carry fifty armored cavalry to spread out on both wings, and then asked Tian Jun to lead the remaining fifty cavalry as his second section.
In the end, he took Cai Que, Guo Zu and other fifty cavalry as the spearhead to attack the enemy's front.
This is undoubtedly very dangerous.
Because Zhang Chong didn't even know how many enemy troops were coming at this time, and he didn't arrange any surprise cavalry in other directions for any tactical coordination. Even an even more unimaginable thing was:
You, a king with millions of people, charge with only fifty cavalry? This is too self-respecting.
What's even more incredible is that none of the powerful generals, including Cai Que, tried to dissuade him. They all accepted Zhang Chong's instructions.
Perhaps in the hearts of these people, the king, no, Zhang Chong, is still the general who leads them forward, the brother who can always rely on their lives.
And what they have to do is actually very simple, that is, follow that flag and crush all enemies in front of them.
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At this time, eight miles away from the river beach where the Taishan Army landed, Cavalry Commander Hua Xiong and the Flying Bear Army of about 3,000 people were moving at high speed along the river beach.
Just yesterday, Wang Changyu, the governor of Hedong at that time, sent an urgent message to Duan Xuan of Huayin, saying that traces of the Taishan Army's cavalry had been found in Dayang, and he was afraid that they would cross the river and attack Shaanxian County.
Duan Yan was a veteran general of the Western Army, a veteran of the military, and he had a wealth of military experience. He immediately judged that this enemy army was bound to cut off his Changshan belly.
Therefore, without any hesitation, he planned to follow the previously planned tactics, which was to attack the enemy from the beginning to the end.
Moreover, in order to deal with the enemy's cavalry and seize fighter opportunities at the same time, Duan Yan also handed over all the Hu and Han knights from his army to Hua Xiong, who would lead them to support Shaanxian County.
Then he would lead the remaining 10,000 people on foot and cavalry to follow slowly, leisurely and leisurely.
Hua Xiong, the supreme warrior of the Western Army, was also the most powerful in Duan Yan's army. He was a fierce warrior in cavalry and used his troops like wind and fire. He once marched two hundred miles a day and raided the flanks of the Kwantung Army, winning high honors.
At this moment, Hua Xiong was marching at high speed with three thousand flying bear troops. They had run ninety miles along the floodplain on the south bank of the river.
The distance of ninety miles was not far for the cavalry, but it made Hua Xiong and his men exhausted, simply because this section of the riverbank was really not a place for horses to walk.
It turns out that on the passage from Huayin to Shaanxian, there is a winding river to the north and Huashan Mountain to the south, so the passage between the two is actually very narrow.
In addition, this narrow passage is also covered with undulating plateaus, and it is not known how long it will take for the people and horsemen to walk.
Therefore, in order to seize the opportunity, Hua Xiong and his three thousand cavalry walked directly from the raised platform to the floodplain on the bank of the river.
It can be said that the rivers are declining and the mountains and rivers are changing. The great river that the world thought would flow forever has begun to have a smaller volume in this generation.
As the water volume increases, an inevitable change is that the river bank shrinks inward, leaving a section of wet river beach.
No one cared about this section of the river beach at first, because the river beach that just emerged from the shore was too wet and practically impossible to walk on, so no one paid attention to it.
But it has been sixty years since the riverbank surface was exposed. Sixty years is the life of three generations. Sixty years is also the end of a dynasty. Sixty years have also made this riverbank floor a road.
Therefore, a problem inevitably arises, that is, the original section from Shaanxian County to Huayin is composed of high and undulating plateaus, so as long as some dock walls are placed on these plateaus, this section can be contained from above. .
In fact, the Han Dynasty did the same thing. There are dozens of large and small dock walls all over the hundreds of miles of Taiwan, making the Weihan Passage the most difficult land hazard in the world to conquer.
But now that the riverbank is exposed, it's different. This directly breaks through the defense in this area. Because the enemy can completely walk to the river bottom below, and no longer needs to make a difficult advance on the platform above.
Therefore, in order to make up for this defense loophole, the Kansai side has actually begun to discuss building a city gate in the westernmost section of the river beach, that is, on the other side of Fenglingdu. It has even been named Tongguan. .
But it is a pity that Tongguan is still just a word. Without him, there is really no one to build it.
Coupled with the previous tight situation in Hedong, limited materials and manpower had to be used in Hedong.
But Guan did not, this road can be walked, but when Hua Xiong led three thousand cavalry for ninety miles, he looked at the last ten miles and lamented to his left and right:
"Ninety of the hundred miles have gone, but why are the last ten miles so tiring?"
Everyone on the left and right is a straightforward warrior, and no one can accept this.
Just like that, Hua Xiong lamented and then ordered:
"The troops continue to advance. We have to arrive before Liu Bei and his men, but we can't let those Hebei wild dogs and Shu bumpkins take away the victory."
The so-called Hebei wild dogs and Shu country bumpkin are referring to the two major warrior groups in Liu Bei's army.
Hua Xiong said this in front of all the knights, which shows the contempt these Liangzhou warriors have for the warriors from these two regions.
As expected, this behavior made all the warriors from Liangdi scream, and then they trudged harder on the riverbank.
So, the army was full of people and horses, crowding the riverbank, and rushed towards the unknown.
In fact, we all know up to this point that these Liangzhou warriors didn't even know that Guo Si from Shaanxi County had already led the main force to the east.
Guo Bangdongjin did not report to the rear coach, which really shows the extent of his outrageous behavior.
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When Zhang Chong led Hengchang to the northwest for support, the first person to react was Li Hu on the riverbank in the westernmost section.
When Li Huyao saw the smoke and dust billowing to the west, he immediately realized that this was a large-scale cavalry army running very fast.
With the scale of Li Hu moving towards the smoke, it will appear at the latest moment.
Then he looked at the chaotic scene by the river. Many knights were struggling to move their horses to the shore. Moreover, due to the rapid water flow, many of these horses were frightened and were neighing at the hands of the knights. Spin.
No matter how much the border herdsmen and warriors comforted them, they could not be comforted.
Most of the frightened war horses came from the Bingbei area. The war horses there rarely encountered such a big river, so they were frightened.
However, Li Hu's Flying Tiger Army was an old army from the time when the Taishan Army moved to fight in the world. The war horses had long been accustomed to various complicated situations, so they rested for a while and ate some fine food to stabilize themselves.
But looking around, how many knights are ready like this? Five or six hundred?
But the situation no longer allowed him to hesitate any longer. Li Hu knew that the entire river was in such a scene at this moment. If the enemy was not stopped in time and the enemy was defeated, a collapse would be inevitable.
Yes, this is war, and the transition between victory and defeat can be so dramatic.
So, Li Hu asked You Yi to go to the king to report the situation, and then headed straight to the west with five hundred fine cavalry.
But after they had run for about four or five miles, they saw the smoke and dust coming from the river bottom below.
Looking at the densely packed Kansai knights below, Li Hu did not hesitate at all, and then gave his order:
"Charge!" Then, Li Hu leveled the horse's stall and drove his horse down the plateau slope.
Behind him were five hundred horsemen inlaid with yellow feathers. They held their horses' poles flat and silently poured them down the slope.
Afterwards, the entire riverbank became a hell on earth.
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Duan Xuan was a very transcendent being among the warriors of Dong Zhuo's line, because he was the peak of Liangdi warriors in the past and the brother of the old Taiwei Duan Jue.
After the old Taiwei died unjustly that year, his people were not persecuted by Yang Qiu under the protection of Liu Hong, so most of them were preserved.
After the death of the old lieutenant, almost all the military assets were inherited by Duan Yan. However, this person was much inferior to his brother, so he could only receive one or two points of inheritance.
But these two points of legacy made Duan Yan's army more powerful than Dong Jun's peers. His army inherited the style of Duan Jiajun, which was Gale Xu Lin.
In the battle of Jishi Mountain, Taiwei Duan left the forty days and fought for two thousand miles. Then in the battle of Fengyi Mountain, he had only fifteen days of food, fought for eight hundred miles, and captured and killed eight thousand people.
It can be said that if there is any cavalry regiment in the world that is best at swift pursuit, it must be the Duan Family Army.
At this moment, the thousands of people at the front of Hua Xiong's army have such an old foundation.
Some of them are from the Northern Army, some from Sanfu, and some from Sanhe. Many of them are even Qiang people, but all of them have gray hair and frosty faces.
They were the veterans of Duan's army, also known as the "Cangtou Army".
Hua Xiong relied on them and specially dispatched them forward to rush for reinforcements. These difficult river floodplains may be difficult for the younger generation of Liang warriors to navigate, but for these seniors, it is a matter of course.
But don't overestimate the strength of these veteran soldiers. If these people can survive to this day, who is not a veteran on the battlefield? They have been fighting bad battles for a long time and are confident in grabbing military glory, so they have no sentry cavalry at all.
So when the knights of the Taishan Army in the southern Taiwan plateau rushed down like a torrent, they immediately suffered a big loss.
What are you most afraid of in a cavalry matchup? The most fearful thing is to be blocked from the waist, because neither humans nor horses can move laterally or defend laterally.
So when Li Hu led the five hundred knights of the Feilong Army and rushed down Tupei, these gray-headed veterans were almost completely defeated.
But things quickly changed.
That is to say, please note that the place where the two armies are fighting at this time is the floodplain of the river, and this lateral distance is very short.
There is an advantage to such a narrow width, that is, the formation width of the Cangtou Army in Kansai is very narrow, so the Taishan Army can penetrate the formation of these people with one gouge.
But there are advantages and disadvantages. Precisely because of the narrowness, when Li Hu led the people to rush down, they rushed to the bank of the river without killing a few people.
Some horses had no time to stop their strength and rushed into the river with their owners on their backs.
Then the river rolled, and these knights could only carry their horses and rush downstream along the river.
But this situation did not last long, because the war horses could not carry their armored owners, and then they sank to the bottom of the river two by two.
Seeing the river swallowing up his brothers, Li Hu roared with grief and anger. Then he held a horse and led the remaining knights into the enemy's formation again.
But at this moment, due to the lack of horse speed, they could not form an impact on these Cangtou troops. However, these Cangtou troops also had no formation at this time, so the two sides fought in a massacre on this narrow river beach.
From time to time, knights fell off their horses, and then the lone horses ran wildly on the river bank in a daze, and some even jumped into the river, seemingly sacrificing their lives for their masters.
At this moment, Li Hu had dismounted, and he and his guards were gathered around to fight with the gray-headed old soldiers who also dismounted and fought on foot.
Here, Li Hu had just pierced the neck of a Cangtou soldier with his Huanshou knife, and then saw his guard being kicked down, and the enemy wanted to follow up with another stab.
So Li Hu threw himself on the man, and then put the ring-headed knife on the man's neck.
The moment the man opposite was knocked down, he blocked his chest with a knife, just in time to receive Li Hu's blow.
At this time, the two of them were going up and down, one was pressing and the other was pushing, wrestling in the boundary between life and death.
Li Hu relied on his youth, strength and superiority to squeeze the enemy's neck with the knife. At this time, his face was pressed against the opponent's jaw, smelling the sour breath and body odor, and cursed angrily. Final sentence:
"Qiang dog, you really stink!"
After saying that, Li Hu used a trick and quickly wiped the blade of the knife along Lao Jun's neck. Li Hu also followed this force and rolled to the side.
After Li Hu was pulled up by the guards behind him, he looked at the old soldier on the ground. He was already bleeding from his neck and would soon die.
Although Li Hu won, he also spent a lot of energy.
He glanced at the fighting battlefield and saw knights from the Flying Dragon Army being pulled off their horses and then stabbed to death, and his heart was filled with blood.
At this moment, Li Rong, his clan brother next to him and one of his guards, grabbed Li Hu. His face was stained with blood, and he begged:
"Military leader, let's fight out. If we continue like this, our old brothers in the Feilong Army will be trapped here."
But Li Hu pushed his clan brother away and cursed:
"Stop talking such nonsense and kill me. Even if all my flying dragon army is dead today, I can't let these people rush over."
After saying that, Li Hu kicked Li Rong down and led the remaining people in to kill him.
Li Rong, who was lying in a pool of blood, didn't wipe his tears. He picked up a broken spear from the ground, then rushed forward like crazy with the broken spear in his left hand and the knife in his right hand.
Li Hu didn't see his clan brother running over, and now he was in danger again.
These old soldiers are really a bunch of old revolutionaries. Maybe Dong's era made these people lose discipline, but it also made these people better at chaos.
Coupled with the fighting skills of these old leather corpses, Li Hu and the Flying Tiger Army suffered a lot.
So even those who are as proud as Li Hu can't help lamenting how powerful these veteran soldiers are.
At this moment, Li Hu suddenly heard heavy horse hooves coming from the platform in front of him, and then he excitedly saw the apricot-yellow paper appearing in front of him.
But before Li Hu was overjoyed, he saw that the big banner didn't care about here and rushed straight to the west along the plateau.
As a result, Li Hu felt like falling into an ice cellar.
At this moment, he seemed to have felt the breath of death.
But the next moment, there was a sudden burst of shouting from the slope in front, and then the sentence was heard:
"The one who kills you is Chen Liudianwei. Yeah, hey, come and die!"
With just such a sentence, the death energy around Li Hu was blown away, and then Li Hu yelled with tears in his eyes:
"Brothers, kill! The king's reinforcements are coming!"
As a result, there were shouts and curses everywhere on the river beach, followed by a bloody massacre.