Chapter 252: The Battle of Shao Ping (24)
After thinking about it, I couldn't think of the intention of the Xian army, and the magic power walked to the southwest corner of the city wall, looking at the Xian soldiers and horses who were going east, the sky was already slightly bright, and after five or six miles, I could vaguely see tens of thousands of horses, driven by the sporadic Xian army, and went east at an unfast speed, and then four or five thousand cavalry followed closely behind the boundary of three miles.
Seeing this, Shentong's eyes looked westward again, the gap opened by the Xian army was empty, neither the Xian army was holding here, nor did he see the follow-up men and horses of the Xian army following, about a tea time passed, and still no one from the Xian army passed, Shentong suddenly became suspicious in his heart, and a trace of ominous feeling flashed in his chest.
"It's strange, why did the Xian army only drive more than 7,000 people to Ma Dong, and where are the remaining 20,000 people?"
Just when he was puzzled, Chen Hanxin's department rode a fast horse and galloped into the city:
"Report, report to the King of Heaven, the Xianjun Ye Xin's headquarters suddenly came to a mile outside General Chen's camp, and his intentions are unknown!"
"What! Ye Xin went outside Chen Hanxin's camp! "The supernatural power was surprised" How many centaurs do you know? ”
"Respect the Heavenly King, there are about more than 10,000 people. General Chen asked the king of heaven whether to fight or defend, or to divide his troops to pursue and annihilate the enemy going east. ”
"Hiss......" The Divine Power Heavenly King felt a chill down his spine, and suddenly realized a problem. The Xian army only ordered 7,000 people to go east, but Ye Xin's troops confronted each other outside Chen Hanxin's camp, and at this time he had to face three choices.
Either let Chen Hanxin hold on to the place, or engage Ye Xin, and then pursue the Xian army going east. The pursuit is obviously unreasonable, and it may be killed by Ye Xin from behind. If you can't hold on, then the gap can't be blocked, if you take the initiative to attack Ye Xin, Ye Xin's cavalry retreats without fighting, no matter what the situation, Chen Hanxin's 30,000 people are watched by Ye Xin's 10,000 people.
What are the remaining 10,000 people of the Xian army going to do? What the Xian army was doing when he drove Ma Dong away, the supernatural powers couldn't figure it out.
"Pass on my military order, and order Chen Hanxin to stick to it!"
"No!"
"Then let Song He's troops stay behind and hold on to the sequel, and the rest of the soldiers will form a formation and move in the direction of the grassland."
"No!"
Song He led 20,000 horses to delay the Xian army for half a day, Shen Duchi was able to lead the army to arrive, forcing the Xian army to retreat south, and then the cavalry ambushed in the grove poured out of the nest, and the 7,000 Xian army and more than 20,000 war horses that broke into the grassland became the turtle in the urn.
At this time, the sky has been brightened, Su Hong led the leopard Tao camp to continue to drive Ma Dong, Baili Yan (both Wei Xian) and Xiao Qu followed, to the east of Shao Ping twelve or thirteen miles, Baili Yan looked at the woods two miles to the south, faintly angry, outwitted Shao Ping that day, he had ambushed here, and thought that the black turban army must have been ambushed here, and after he led the men and horses over, he killed from behind to cut off his retreat when he came.
Seeing this, Bai Liyan rode a horse to find Xiao Qu and said:
"General Xiao, there is an enemy cavalry ambush in the southern grove, we must be careful."
Xiao Qu looked at it intently, and when he found a large area of hills, he couldn't help but be a little suspicious:
"General Wei, the forest is a hill, how can a war horse kill from it?"
"War horses naturally can't be killed from the hills and ravines, but south of this forest is a flat land, and our army looks at it from the front, that is, a mountain, but we don't know the mystery behind the mountain. Therefore, ordinary people must only hide in the infantry, but not in the cavalry.
When the Japanese hid their troops here, they hid their horses in the flat woods of the back mountains, and they could not see them at all when they looked from northwest to southeast. When it came to the war, the men and horses detoured from south to east from behind the mountain, and Leng Buding could be killed by surprise. ”
Hills and ravines often cannot hide cavalry, because it is not conducive to entry and exit and concealment, and it is difficult to achieve suddenness.
However, Shao Ping is in the northwest of this wooded hill, surrounded by plains and forests, and is relatively isolated, as long as the horses are hidden in the blind corner of the field of vision, it can create the illusion that the cavalry cannot be hidden here. Whether it is moving from west to east, or from northwest to southeast, you can't see the horses behind the mountain at all, and it is very easy to be careless.
Su Hong drove the mare all the way to the east, and faintly saw a herd of grazing horses five or six miles ahead, Shen Duchi and Lu Ting, the two generals, had already been in strict formation, with the infantry as the formation, and the cavalry spread out left and right, setting up a goose-shaped formation that was convenient for encircling the enemy.
"General Shen, the Xian army is here!" Lu Ting said, thinking that the King of Heaven was really clever.
Shen Duchi glanced at the southwest direction, and saw that the speed of the Xian army was very slow, and there were few people in sight, all horses, and he said:
"No, there are only one or two thousand people in the forward of the Xian army, and there are fourteen or five thousand horses, and they want horses to charge into battle."
"Charge?" Lu Ting disagreed: "Isn't that right, General Shen quickly brought the horses and blocked in front of our army's formation, and watched how they rushed into battle!" Then General Shen's cavalry fought left and right, and his 2,000 men and horses could not match the 10,000 horses under General Shen's command. ”
While the two were talking, Su Hong had already reached a distance of four miles with his horse, and his speed was gradually slowing down. Shen Duchi was worried that the Xian army would use their horses to attack the infantry formation, so he quickly drove the horses to the left and right sides of the goose-shaped formation, and deployed cavalry to prepare for the kill.
At this time, the ambush was twelve miles southeast of Shaoping, and the 10,000 cavalry in the hills and forests had come from behind the mountain.
"Brothers, kill me, kill the enemy will take the first rank, and the official will be promoted to two levels, kill me!"
The cavalry poured out of the nest left and right, Su Hong was less than three miles away from Shen Duchi at this time, and when he saw Shen Duchi's cavalry coming from the left and right, he turned his war horse and rushed into the mare crowd and shouted:
"Quick, drive the horse to the north at full speed, and don't fall in love!"
With a few crisp and piercing whistles, the soldiers of the Leopard Tao battalion rushed into the mares herd, driving the mares to the north, and when Shen Duchi's cavalry was close to a mile at full speed, the mares suddenly turned to the north, wiping the black turban army and fleeing in panic, exposing the vanguard of Bailiyan and Xiao Qu to Shen Duchi's troops.
Shen Duchi did not expect the Xian army to turn suddenly, and immediately divided his troops to chase Su Hong, and led the main force of his headquarters to the west, facing the troops of Bailiyan and Xiao Qu head-on. Just as he was urging the horse to kill, the war horse under his crotch stood up his hind legs, snorted irritably, kicked his front hooves back and forth, and almost threw Shen Duchi off the horse.
"Phew... Appeal ......"
Shen Duchi tightened the reins of his horse and tried to stabilize the horse, not wanting to exclaim to the escort beside him:
"It's not good, the horse is frightened, the horse is frightened!"
Without waiting for the words to fall, the back legs of the war horse kicked the horse's back and rolled, the escort couldn't control it, threw out the saddle and fell heavily to the ground, but was trampled on the thigh by his own war horse, with a clattering sound, and a terrible scream resounded through the battlefield.
Shen Duchi finally stabilized the reins of the horse, thinking that it was just an accident, but unexpectedly, the news that the horses were frightened came one after another, Shen Duchi's heart sank immediately, although he didn't know what the reason was, but subconsciously looked behind him, his face turned black again, and he thought, it's over!
I saw that the horses on both sides of Lu Ting's infantry formation, which were supposed to block the Xianjun army's charging formation, were frightened one after another, and they were not called by anyone at all, rushing to the flank of Lu Ting's infantry formation, and Lu Ting's men and horses were crushed, there were 30,000 war horses, Lu Ting only had 10,000 people, and the 30,000 frightened war horses ran over all the way.
Not only did the 30,000 empty horses rush north uncontrollably, but even the more than 10,000 cavalry under Shen Duchi's command were almost out of control scurrying around, and 12 out of 12 soldiers were thrown off their horses, and there was no combat power at all.
Bailiyan led the army to kill a mile away, and when he saw that the black turban army was in chaos, he thought that most of the beauties had been completed, and he accelerated into the enemy formation with a spear.
More than 2,000 forwards under Shen Duchi's department rode around in place without parrying, and under one blow, they were killed and turned on their backs, so hated that Shen Duchi's eyes were so broken that his heart was dripping blood:
"Rush me, rush me!"
"No, General Shen, the horses are not controlled by the brothers at all." The soldier said.
Shen Duchi operated the gun to urge the horse, but just walked out two or three steps, the crotch of the war horse like a sheep madness did not listen to the call, asked it to go west, but turned the horse's head to the north, Shen Duchi whipped two whips, trying to bring the horse back, but the war horse stood upright, erected 90 degrees to the sky, and threw Shen Duchi to the ground, and then broke off the reins and chased the mare smell to the north.
Shen Duchi tried to turn over and get up to chase the war horse, but as soon as he turned around, he found that his right arm had been broken, and the pain in his heart was unbearable.
"General Shen, General Shen!"
The escort jumped off the war horse to help Shen Duchi, Shen Duchi gritted his teeth, sat up straight and said in pain:
"Quick, quickly return to the grassland and join forces with General Lu Ting, go quickly!"
"No!"
At this moment, Shen Duchi only thought that the frightened horses must have been set by the Xian army, and he only thought that he could bring the horses back with everyone and hold Lu Ting's defense line, as long as the Xian army attacked the formation, the other 10,000 horses in the lurk could surround it.
But who knew that most of the frightened war horses were chasing the mare of the Xian army, and there was no intention of turning back at all.
Baili Yan and Xiao Qu's troops did not entangle when they entered Shen Duchi's formation, and they turned around and headed north after killing a few hundred meters. The enemy horsemen who followed two miles behind him also got the madness of sheep, and the war horses did not obey the call and scurried around, and the original swarm of bees began to scatter and flee, and some simply chased the smell of the mare, and even the people and horses fled northward, and there was no combat power at all.
Seeing this, Baili Yan speared into the sky, waving red tassels. Seeing this, the guards shouted in unison:
"The general is here, follow quickly!"
The voice spread far and wide, Xiao Qu was killing with great strength, and he had never encountered a situation where the opponent was defeated, and when he heard the news that Bailiyan was going to withdraw, Xiao Qu urged the horse to come and asked:
"The Black Turban Army is in a big rout, if you don't kill the two of them more at this time, it will be too cheap for them!"
"General Xiao, you and I are surrounded by the Black Turban Army, the Black Turban Cavalry suddenly retreated to the foot formation, they must be waiting for our army to attack the formation, they are unable to protect themselves at this time, how can they prevent the elite soldiers of our army."
"In that case, why don't you attack the fuck." Xiao Qu was furious, knowing that the traitor couldn't hold it, so he didn't take the opportunity to kill him personally and turn over on his back, what to do.
Bailiyan said again:
"General Xiao did not look at the retreat of the enemy's cavalry, and the infantry was in chaos by the impact of the war horses, but he resolutely did not retreat, and there must be fraud in it. In case our army rushes into battle and is entangled by it, and then another enemy army is killed at this time, how can our army still have a way to live. ”
It is precisely because the enemy may use your winning mentality to set up ambushes on the way to escape, whether it is defeat or fraud, there is a possibility of being ambushed on the road.