Chapter 790 Fighting for supremacy
War, like all complex things, has elements that are intertwined and interconnected, but this does not mean that all elements have the same weight.
There are always some special nodes. Once they collapse, the overall situation will collapse.
For the Eastern Front battlefield at this moment, the situation is like this.
Perhaps before going into battle, no one would have expected that Li Tai's army would be destroyed so quickly, let alone that his destruction would directly lead to a reversal of the war situation on the Eastern Front.
The reason for all this is not complicated, it is because Li Tai's army is the army that charges the most fiercely and sinks the deepest among all the battalions on the Eastern Front.
Therefore, its collapse fell directly in the eyes of the battalion leaders behind them, and the scene of them being stabbed to death by thousands of arrows was too horrifying. Therefore, on the eastern battlefield, the morale of the battalions of Li Tong and Li Zheng was high Ju, they all hesitated and did not dare to come forward.
It was at this time that Xifu Jiaqi, who had been hiding in the dark like a poisonous snake, finally took action.
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Wen Chou and his generals had been observing the situation of Li Tong's army.
There, the officers and soldiers of the rear guard who had been advancing forward had already occupied the positions previously occupied by Wei Bo's army, and had successively repelled several groups of enemy cavalry coming from the rear.
But after that, Li Tong's troops did not achieve any results. They just gathered together blindly and were shot by the enemy troops on the opposite side.
The officers and soldiers guarding the rear were like targets, being shot at by the enemy's crossbowmen on the opposite side. This made Wen Chou very confused and didn't understand what happened to Li Tong.
In fact, not to mention Wen Chou, even Li Tong himself didn't know what happened.
The accident happened from the north. Li Tong had been sitting in the rear before, and the three commanders at the front were Chen Gong, Liu Jing, and Wu Shuo.
Originally, these three army leaders were confronting the left wing of the Guangwu Army. The enemy's infantry and crossbows were not something that the tired three armies could easily defeat.
But no one expected that an army would suddenly appear from the north. They were actually carrying the banners of "Wei Bojun" and "Xie Bi", and they were full of momentum as soon as they appeared.
Among them, there was a fierce enemy general who sniped and killed Chen Gong who was sitting in the north from a very long distance.
At that time, Chen Gong was going to the front line to boost morale and planned to organize a jumping formation to break the enemy's infantry formation. But halfway through, his clothes and style revealed his identity.
The arrow penetrated through Chen Gong's temple, and finally the entire arrow penetrated into his head.
He looked helplessly at the blue sky, fell down on the grass that smelled of grass, and breathed his last breath unwillingly.
Misfortunes never come singly!
A few breaths later, Chen Gong's younger brother Chen Jing was also shot down by the same arrow. But he was lucky. When he heard that his brother was shot, he subconsciously turned his head. The arrow should have hit the center of his eyebrow. , and finally grazed his ear.
The arrow took away half of Chen Jing's right ear and also took him off the horse.
And when he fell to the ground, he saw his brother who had died in the battle, and he refused to close his eyes.
Chen Jing crawled over with all his strength. At this moment, Chen Gong's soldiers had already rushed over in a panic. They blocked the view to the north with cards, and then checked the military leader's injury in a panic.
In this way, everyone could only numbly accept the fact that Chen Gong died in battle, which greatly reduced the morale of the Jianghuai soldiers who were already low in fighting spirit.
At this time, the rear guard army suffered heavy losses.
Finally, the grieving Chen Jing took over his brother's banner and took over the command again. Afterwards, he took the only three remaining battalions and turned north to avenge the remnants of Wei Bo's army.
Chen Jing personally organized the trap team and directly participated in the war as a front-line fighter.
But the final result frustrated everyone.
Not only was Chen Jing's team dispersed by the opposite side, but a certain battalion that was part of the rear guard also had its military flag captured by the group of enemy troops.
The person who captured the military flag was an extremely majestic warrior. He only used a bow and a ring-headed sword to cut down the guards near the military flag. He was truly the most courageous figure in the three armies.
What the timid rear guard officers couldn't accept was that a few people seemed to recognize the man and told everyone that he seemed to be a fierce general from the former guard army.
After that, Chen Jing retreated slightly with the remaining remnants, until he only returned to the original position with the support of Li Tong's remaining reinforcements.
But the rear guard army was frightened, but the Taishan Army received new reinforcements.
After getting away from Li Fu's reinforcements, an infantry group of about 3,000 people arrived at Zhang Nan, and the latter decisively dispatched the reinforcements to the Guangwu Army.
Leading this infantry was Dian Wei, a famous general of the Taishan Army.
Dian Wei, who had been away from front-line command for a long time, was activated by Zhang Chong again. He rushed to the Guangwu Army on the eastern front with the armored soldiers from the Chinese Army.
Not long after he arrived with his vanguard, Dian Wei led a group of skirmishers to attack Li Tong's troops.
These Chinese tooth soldiers, who were covered in iron armor, formed a small formation of three or five, and then charged in through the small gaps between the formations of the Jianghuai soldiers.
Those armored soldiers with fierce fighting skills were like iron nails, drilling into the already riddled rear guard formation.
As a result, even though there were military officials at all levels supervising the war, the chaos was reduced to a trickle.
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On Wen Chou's side, he sighed, pulled up the horse stick stuck in the ground, and then without saying a word, went to Li Tong's side to support him.
Previously, Wen Chou had made an important agreement with Li Tong, that is, when he saw the tricolor flag raised over Li Tong's side, that was the moment when he needed to charge with his armored cavalry.
But now, a "red, yellow and white" three-color flag slowly rose from Li Tong's formation, so after carefully weighing the battlefield situation, Wen Chou finally decided to charge with more than a thousand armored cavalry.
In fact, Yuan Shao placed Wen Chou on the Eastern Front at the beginning because he wanted to use him as a key force to determine victory or defeat. But now it seems that the war on the Eastern Front is too stretched. Even if Wen Chou attacks at this moment, he will only be defeated in the end. Taishan Army on the Eastern Front.
But with the current situation, what can we think about?
Wen Chou walked slowly on his horse, followed by about a thousand armored cavalry, which seemed to be a mass of light under the sunlight. They advanced slowly amidst the blowing of several trumpeters.
Wen Chou chose a very tricky angle to lurk and attack, just on the right side of Li Tongjun and Li Zhengjun.
With the cover of these troops, when the armored cavalry army reached a position less than 300 steps away from Li Tong's army, Dian Wei and others in the inner circle realized something was wrong.
Dian Wei, who was attacking Li Tong's troops, suddenly felt the ground shaking. At the same time, he saw the enemy troops on the opposite side hurriedly retreating to both sides. Dian Wei, who had been prepared for a long time, shouted:
"We will also withdraw from both sides."
The guards around Dian Wei received the order and kept blowing horns around them. Different sound variations conveyed Dian Wei's intention to withdraw his troops.
As a result, Li Tongjun, who was already on the verge of collapse, was surprised to find that the brave armored soldiers scattered even further, and even dispersed to both sides of the battlefield intentionally or unintentionally.
At the same time, Wen Chou clamped his horse's belly and galloped the horse, with dozens of armored cavalry walking alongside him. Together they formed a horizontal team, and behind them, about forty or fifty rows, had already lifted Ma Shuping.
When Li Tong notified Wen Chou in the rear to attack, he had already ordered the battalions in the front to give way to a charging lane, but when it was actually implemented, only the battalion leaders slightly behind actually carried out this order.
It's not that the other battalions can't do it, but they can no longer restrain the officers who are on the verge of collapse.
Those high-ranking senior military officials still couldn't figure out why these officials were so timid. They became so timid just because of a slight disturbance.
And if you put yourself in their shoes, they'll understand why.
If you were an ordinary Jianghuai soldier, how would you view everything in front of you?
Originally, as armed forces from the Jianghuai region, they were unwilling to fight in Luoyang, thousands of miles away. Everything there was far away from them.
After a long and arduous journey, they finally arrived at Yishui Camp.
But when they got here, they often ran out of supplies and ate old grains. They endured day by day, hoping that the war would end soon.
Well, it was finally their turn to attack, but they were told that they were the first to cross the river.
Even the stupidest soldiers knew what it meant for the first batch to cross the river. But they have no right to speak and can only follow orders.
After crossing the river cautiously, they went all the way north and penetrated deep into the river land. They didn't encounter an enemy for a long time. But from time to time, there are companions around me saying that a certain sentry team has lost contact.
All this tells these ordinary Jianghuai soldiers the fact that they are really going deep alone.
Okay, they finally saw traces of friendly forces fighting, and the superiors decisively asked them to attack, but halfway, they were blocked by a solid dock wall.
It was also there that they lost nearly one-eighth of their brothers, but in the end not only failed to support friendly forces, but their superiors also ordered them to abandon their dead brothers and retreat.
Is this what they came all the way here to do? Just being treated like a piece of shit here? Let the corpse be eaten by birds and beasts?
Although they are humble, they also have feelings. Even birds and beasts still have some emotion, let alone human beings?
So when they retreated, the morale of these Jianghuai soldiers was exhausted, and then something happened.
Chen Min, who had just been ordered to do something in danger before the battle, was killed by his superiors because of some bullshit that deceived the morale of the army. They have eyes. In the previous battle at Wumingwu Wall, it was the former army who fought the most brutally and resolutely.
No one wants to die, but everyone respects this kind of warrior. Especially since this warrior died on the way to charge.
Therefore, Chen Wu's image is very majestic in the eyes of these Jianghuai soldiers.
The same was true for his uncle Chen Min, so when the superiors executed all the Chen family's children on unfounded charges, everyone knew which one was at fault.
Although they have been silent, justice prevails in people's hearts.
What next? First, he refused to advance, and then Captain Ding, who was the most powerful in the army, surrendered with some of his brothers.
These people have very vague senses of the above. People like Li Tong do not patrol the army all the year round, and they will not show anything in the army.
But Ding Feng was different. Most of the Jianghuai soldiers knew that he was a heroic man who was fierce and loyal.
So once Ding Feng surrendered, the first thought of most soldiers was that the higher-ups must have made a mistake.
It is bound to harm Zhongliang again.
In fact, all the above emotions are not important, because as long as the superiors can help them win and survive, then those will only be the "complaints" of a "small number" of people.
But what now? They attacked suddenly, and their numbers were in the majority on the local battlefield. However, with such a favorable wind, they only achieved the victory of defeating one enemy army. In the end, the defeated ones reorganized and attacked again.
After that, they kept getting beaten and losing.
The number of familiar brothers in Paoze has been decreasing.
This is the mentality of an ordinary official. How can you make them have a "war spirit"?
Now they are really in a state of incapacity that they will lie down as soon as they are caught and dispersed as soon as they are released.
Therefore, they couldn't hear anything about the Chinese army's horn telling them to disperse, or the enemy troops approaching. They just stood there blankly, paying no attention to anything.
So, when Wen Chou's armored cavalry had already rushed up, he saw that the miscellaneous soldiers from the rear guard were still blocking the front.
If it were an ordinary military general, he might have bypassed him from both sides at this time, but who was Wen Chou? He is ferocious at heart.
Originally he looked down upon these losers, but when he saw that these people dared to block the charge, Wen Chou took the lead and charged forward without any hesitation.
The spear in his hand easily tore the skin, and then, as if a frying pan exploded, those "stupid" Jianghuai soldiers suddenly collapsed.
These people did not collapse under the Taishan Army's armored soldiers and arrows, but were defeated by the "friendly forces" at the moment when the "friendly forces" came to help.
What does the scene at this time look like? It was the dandelions that were still barely together, but in a gust of wind, they all disintegrated, and finally no one was left bare.
It was precisely because the collapse was so severe that Wen Chou, the instigator, even wondered if these people had already collapsed and he just "happened" to come.
But there is no need to worry about this. The armored cavalry of nearly a thousand people charge, which is overwhelming.
Wen Chou and others stepped on Jiang Huaibing's corpse and listened to the screams of the horses. The ferocity and bloodlust in their hearts were suddenly aroused.
After all, man is just an animal.
As Wen Chou and the others quickly penetrated deeper, the collapse quickly extended to all the rear guard camp heads. In this case, no matter how elite the battalion head was, there was no way to recover, so the rear guard army collapsed across the board.
At the same time, Li Tong in the back stared blankly at the scene in front of him. Seeing the familiar flags falling down, he finally couldn't hold it back and spat out a mouthful of blood.
He vowed with hatred that he would repay Wen Chou's debt with blood. But at this moment, who doesn’t think this is just the cry of a defeated dog?
Looking at Wen Chou's side, more than a thousand cavalry troops finally broke through the chaotic rear guard position and arrived in front of the formation.
But just as they were preparing to attack the Guangwu Army, they discovered that what appeared in front of them was not the Guangwu Army, but a cavalry army with men and horses wearing armor just like them.
At this moment, Wen Chou didn't know that the enemy had also dispatched his armored cavalry here.
But Wen Chou, who had already been mobilized by the killing, was not afraid. He flicked his horse and rushed towards the Taishan Army Cavalry on the opposite side.
As a result, the first large-scale charge between armored knights in the history of this world was staged at this moment.
Armored Cavalry, hit it!
Armored Cavalry, fight for supremacy!