Chapter 762 Unprecedented
Zhang Chong rarely has his own way, because he knows that his wisdom may not be better than that of the staff behind the curtain. But when it came to the decision to conquer Liaodong, Zhang Chong went his own way.
At that time, almost no one in the army supported him, they simply followed orders.
But based on their true intentions and wishes, they felt that at that point in time, whether they were attacking Qingzhou or the Central Plains, it was more correct than Liaodong.
But after the Taishan Army finished the battle of Liaodong, everyone in the army, both civil and military, was convinced. Even now, in order to run Liaodong, the Taishan Army is spending a huge amount of money and food, but everyone still thinks it is worth it.
Why?
Because Liaodong is located between Pingzhou, Baishan and Blackwater, which breeds the world's top warriors. The tribal warriors here who should have been wasting away in the corners of history have exerted their light and heat in the Taishan Army's system and have also established their own prestige.
What is the war about?
It can be said that what is being fought is money and food, and it can be said that what is being fought is strength, but everything returns to the battlefield. Between the two formations, any ingenuity is fake, and the victory or defeat is only between people.
Previously, the main warriors of the Taishan Army were almost all from the mountains of Tai, Lu, Yi, and Meng, followed by the Taihang Mountains and Shanliao from various places. With systematic training and high-quality armor and equipment, these high-quality soldiers became the Taishan Army. The key to the army's invincibility in conquering the north and south.
Why Shanliao?
Because in this era, only the Shanliao in the mountains had the opportunity to eat meat and have enough training in leaping and jumping, so they were more suitable to send out elite soldiers than the Guizhou plains.
And what will happen once the Taishan Army, which already has the advantage in force, absorbs the warriors from the Haidong region?
And the warriors of both Sushen and Goguryeo are good at bows, while the warriors of Xianbei and Wuhuan are good at riding, and the Taishan army selects the best among the best. If you don't have the courage of ten men, you can't wear armor, and if you don't have the crown of a hundred men, you can't be an official. You just think Think about how elite the Pingzhou soldiers in each army are.
The same is the case. Now the generals of the Taishan Army generally like to use Pingzhoushi. Even if these people do not speak Chinese well, they are still happy to use them around to teach them.
Without him, he is too brave. And the Pingzhou scholars who were favored by various armies were also willing to die fighting for the army leaders and camp generals.
Previously, three of the five guards who accompanied Guo Mo were Pingzhou soldiers. Seeing that the military leader was in danger, these three people came to rob Guo Mo even if they saw that the military leader was in danger. This shows their proportion and loyalty.
No way, these warriors from the lowest-priced tribal form are really simple at heart. In the Taishan Army, the petty chiefs at all levels were killed, allowing these people to truly live like human beings, and these people rewarded them with their infinite loyalty.
Since then, with the influx of these Pingzhou warriors, the Taishan Army's combat power has increased by leaps and bounds.
At this moment, there was a small setback in front of Bao Tao's army, and Guo Mo immediately sent his trapped warriors to retaliate with thunder.
Of these eight hundred warriors, half of them were warriors from various ethnic groups in Pingzhou, and the nine-foot-two-inch tall warrior was also from Pingzhou and was a tribal warrior of the Tuoba family, Yuwen Yuanbao.
This man is the supreme warrior of Yuwen Xianbei, and he is really capable of tearing apart tigers and leopards. Guo Mo followed the army into Liaodong and fell in love with this man at first sight. At that time, the Tuoba family refused to let him go, but they waited for the new tribe to Following the implementation of the policy, these chiefs at all levels moved south to Yecheng one after another. Yuwen Yuanbao, who had lost his food and clothing and came to help, naturally could not escape from Guo Mozhong.
And Guo Mo was very kind to promote Yuan Bao to the position of trapping general. Didn't you realize that Han Dang, who came from the horizontal collision system, was just a trapping general? Yuanbao Yijie, a northerner, could be promoted to this position. You can imagine his kindness. .
Naturally, Yuwen Yuanbao also knew the favor, and would move forward regardless of Guo Mo's orders.
When Yuwen Yuanbao rushed to Liang Peijun's left flank with eight hundred iron soldiers, their first formation had collapsed, but between the two formations, he saw a miserable scene.
I saw that the knights belonging to the left battalion of Fangtu Cavalry either had their chests pierced by wooden stakes and suffered pain, or they fell off their horses, and then their heads were cut off by the enemy soldiers inside the wooden stakes.
Yuwen Yuanbao looked at the battlefield and knew how the robes who had suddenly ridden the left camp died in the battle. Most of these people rushed in through the gap, and then suddenly discovered that there were rows of wooden piles in front of them, so they had no time to react and bumped into them one after another.
It's such a pity that a good man fell on a wooden stake before he could make any achievements.
When Yu Wen Yuanbao and other armored soldiers rushed over, there was still a group of armored soldiers sitting in front of Liang Peibing's wooden stake formation. They were the front camp officials of the Baotao Army who had just charged the formation.
Because they were exhausted from the fighting and there was nothing they could do with the enemy's wooden stakes, these people sat on the ground to rest.
Until they saw Yuwen Yuanbao and others coming, and saw the flags behind these people, they knew that the trappers of the Chinese army were coming.
As a result, these people no longer dared to rest and were busy helping each other to get up. Fortunately, they just stayed in place instead of retreating, because these trappers were not only responsible for trapping the enemy, they were also responsible for cutting them off.
Several of the warriors who were former Laoya soldiers rushed to Yuwen Yuanbao. When they saw the man's eyes exposed behind the iron mask, they knew that he was a Xianbei Hu.
These old soldiers are all authentic Han Chinese, and they probably look down on Xianbei Hu. However, even though they have not long joined the Taishan Army, they also know that racial discrimination in the army is taboo.
So these people lowered their heads and reported the situation on the battlefield at this time:
"Our army had just defeated the first formation of thieves. Unexpectedly, there was a deer camp behind the formation. It turned out that the left battalion unexpectedly crashed into it without noticing it, and suffered heavy losses. The soldiers of our front battalion were severely depleted due to the long period of fierce fighting. In addition, He was wearing heavy armor and it was difficult to move around in the deer village, so he was delayed. ”
It was said that they were reporting on the battlefield situation, but in fact these people still excused themselves more.
Yuwen Yuanbao ignored these people, but kept squinting his eyes to observe the front. At this time, the general beside him asked these people:
"How thick is the enemy's stronghold? How many soldiers are there?"
These tooth soldiers all knew these two questions and hurriedly replied:
"The enemy's wooden village is long and narrow, and the main defense is against our army on the front, and the depth on the flanks is very shallow. The enemy's mostly deployed archers and crossbowmen in the wooden village, about five hundred people."
Yuwen Yuanbao could understand Chinese, but he was not very good at speaking it. After hearing this information and combining it with his own battlefield observations, he immediately had an idea.
He said to several people:
"War horses, knights, how many people, us. Mount, rope, pull."
Several tooth soldiers were confused after hearing this, but the eyes of the general beside him were bright, and he hurriedly added:
"How many knights are left in the left camp of the Assault Cavalry? Let them gather together and use lasso to pull away the wooden stakes, while our army will rush in along the passage."
The tooth soldiers were also inspired by this tactic. Why didn't they think of this?
So, the last fifty or so remaining assault riders were gathered together. After they learned that they could avenge Paoze, they charged forward regardless of the shots from the crossbowmen in the formation.
Most of these sudden riders were Pingzhou soldiers and were accustomed to using lasso, so forty or fifty lassoes fluttered in the arrow feathers, and finally landed accurately on the antlers.
These people are also smart and know that the wooden stakes are driven into the soil and are very difficult to pull, but the antlers can be pulled away directly.
There was no need to be greeted by the people behind. The riders, who had put on their antlers, rode back on horseback. In order to increase the speed of their horses, they even waved their whips and whipped their beloved horses until their skins were raw.
"Boom"
Loud noises of the antlers being pulled were heard one after another, and then a fifty-step wide passage was opened, revealing a group of pale-faced Liang Pei crossbowmen.
So, Yuwen Yuanbao rushed over with eight hundred iron soldiers in the formation. Behind them, the armored soldiers from the front camp were also roaring ferociously. They were also covered with loops of ropes to prevent there being a wooden village in front.
Just like this, the rolling iron stream first drowned the unobstructed crossbowmen, and then rushed into the second formation. After a while, the camp flags here fell and the entire camp collapsed.
...In the center of the horizontal formation, Zhang He stood on the chariot, with surprise and confusion on his face.
It's not that he has never fought against the Taishan Army. In the previous battle at Wan'an Mountain, he led the Beifu Knights to chase down the Bohai Soldiers. The enemy's combat power in that battle was extraordinary, comparable to that of the main force of the five main guards of our army. force.
Therefore, Zhang He did not underestimate the Taishan Army, and made the most prudent arrangements despite the small number of troops. But half an hour after the battle started, he was surprised to find that the enemy's combat power was so much stronger than the previous Bohai soldiers.
In fact, he didn't know that the Bohai Navy he had faced in the Wan'an Mountain area was only the local army of the Taishan Army, a second-level army. But now he was facing the 17th Army of the Forbidden Army selected by the Taishan Army, which was the real Field elite.
Yes, Yuan Shao does have strong soldiers.
Yuzhou was the first place to be in chaos. Most of the people there were veterans tempered on the battlefield, so once Yuan Shao moved out the Zhuangtian warrior system, he could quickly create a capable warrior group.
The former guards led by Zhang He were the elite ones compiled and trained by Ju Yi before, and they were even stronger among the strongest. But unfortunately, Yuzhou is a place of chaos, and there is indeed no shortage of wars, but the intensity of the wars is not high.
In other words, if the warriors of Yuzhou Manor fight poorly, they are the best, but if they really have to fight in a decisive battle and fight with high intensity, it is different.
At this moment, the weakness of the Yuzhou Manor warriors was fully exposed in front of Zhang He.
Let’s not talk about the situation on the two wings, let’s just talk about the front.
The Taishan Army also spread out a horizontal formation in front of their own side, but Zhang He could see at a glance that the number of enemy troops was insufficient. The thickness of the horizontal formation was very thin, and such a thickness could not have any impact.
After being thus arranged, the enemy quickly launched an attack.
There was nothing to say at the beginning. The enemy troops came in step by step. Once they were within the range of the crossbows, the two sides began to shoot at each other.
But Zhang He suffered a big loss immediately, because the enemy started firing arrows at five hundred steps, using ballistas.
Seeing the short spear-thick arrows attacking his front row in pieces, Zhang He pinched his palms tightly. He did not expect that the ballista could be used in this way.
The enemy actually marched the ballistae along with the infantry, and then when they reached the firing range, they formed a small formation and all gathered for use.
And what about Zhang He? They also have ballistae, which are imitations of the Taishan Army's. But they had only captured these ballistae, but had not seen the tactics of the Taishan Army.
So at first, Zhang He still used the crossbow as an extended crossbow, and "considerately" used it in conjunction with his own crossbow array.
Therefore, when the enemy's crossbows were already firing, they were still waiting for the enemy to approach. When the enemy approached from behind, the front was blocked by the formation of crossbowmen.
There was no other way, Zhang He could only withdraw the crossbowmen.
After such a struggle, the enemy army had already approached the position of 150 steps, so both sides began to fire crossbows.
This round, Zhang He suffered another big loss.
That is, the Taishan Army's armor rate is too high, and the main armored soldiers on Zhang He's side are sword soldiers, all arranged in the back row, and the front row are infantrymen wearing only uniforms.
Therefore, after shooting from both sides, Zhang He's front camp became visibly thinner.
But soon, Zhang He regained the victory.
The enemy's bows and arrows were indeed very powerful, but the continuity was not strong. However, he used the stacked formation trained by Ju Yi, so the arrows were continuous.
In the next one hundred and fifty steps, the enemy troops struggled to advance against the continuous arrow feathers.
In fact, this is indeed the case. In the Taishan Army's standard field tactics, at this distance, they would throw several rounds of short spears and javelins. However, the blows Zhang He's troops gave to the Taishan Army were too continuous. At this time, they were allowed to throw Hands forward is to die.
Therefore, the former camp leader could only give up throwing and continue to resist the enemy's arrows.
Within fifty paces the situation became very awkward. If at about a hundred steps, Yuan Jun's crossbow could not penetrate the armor of the Holy Army, but after reaching this position, no matter how thick the armor was, it could not stop the crossbow's stab.
And the Holy Army cannot let the card players behind to defend, otherwise the formation will be scattered and the advance of the troops will be interrupted.
Therefore, in the last fifty steps, the infantrymen in the front row of the Holy Army were approaching step by step despite huge casualties.
After the Peng Sheng Army finally approached Yuan's army, as the leaders of the platoon issued military orders, all the infantry that had been densely packed like a forest were let go.
Within these five steps, flowers of death bloomed everywhere, and Yuan Jun's front line was filled with howls, screams, and curses.
It turned out that the Taishan Army's rifle was longer than that of the Yuan Army.
At this moment, Zhang He looked like he was on the verge of collapse. How was he going to fight this battle? The crossbow is farther than me, the armor is more numerous than me, and even the steps are longer than me.
This is being suppressed in all aspects.
Sure enough, under the first round of stabbings by the Holy Army, Yuan Jun's front row troops collapsed.
Then the second row, the third row...
The retreat was simply unstoppable, and Zhang He's face became increasingly livid. He keenly discovered that there was a gap between his own army and the enemy in terms of combat strength and tactics, but the gap was not that big. After all, the main force in front was Huang Zhong's Jiangxia soldiers.
What really creates the huge gap between the two is the resilience of the military.
Yes, those Jiangxia soldiers were indeed hit by enemy bows and crossbows, but weren't the enemy soldiers shot at? But the enemy troops were able to continue fighting despite their casualties, while the Jiangxia soldiers retreated one after another after being hit by a round of arrows.
There were twenty people in a row, one fell to the ground, and the two on the side pulled this person back. Seven or eight fell to the ground, and the entire platoon collapsed.
Looking at the Jiang Xia soldiers who were carrying injured officers and soldiers withdrew, those who knew it thought they were deeply affectionate, and those who didn't know thought they were greedy for life and afraid of death.
Zhang He couldn't understand why the enemy army was so resilient. He pursed his lips and said to the soldiers waiting below:
"Go over and tell Huang Zhong that I have no reinforcements for him. He will either hold his position for me or die there."
After receiving the order, the guards hurriedly led Kanhe straight to Huang Zhong's army formation in front.
But before the command to the guards was sent, Zhang He on the chariot saw that the enemy's advance was blocked.