Chapter 1477: The Battle of Xuzhou (74)
As far as commanding troops to fight is concerned, it is obvious that Zhang Fei has a distance from Guan Yu, Zhao Yun and others, but this does not mean that he does not have any ideas about the construction of the troops.
At that time, many people only thought that this was the same as the formation of troops, sword and shield soldiers, spearmen and archers and other arms cooperated, but obviously the lord had a different view of this statement at that time, which Zhang Fei agreed with Liu Lan very much, of course, he didn't understand the deeper meaning of this at that time, but for Liu Lan's words, whether right or wrong, he thought it was right.
However, after the raid on Shouchun, or at the time of the raid on Shouchun, in the confrontation with Ji Ling's pursuers, with the assistance of Lu Su, the flexible combat of infantry and cavalry, not only often set up ambushes, but also repelled the pursuers again and again, such operations gave Zhang Fei a new understanding of the joint operation of cavalry and infantry.
Compared with the previous new understanding of the cavalry army, Zhang Fei found that the original war would change so much, but this was only in such a specific environment, now after the battle, when the cavalry infantry cooperation is not so bright, he thought of the heavy armor soldiers, until this time he felt from the bottom of his heart that the lord was so far-sighted, if he could have heavy cavalry or heavy infantry in his troops, how could it be difficult to break through the enemy formation now.
The thickness and hardness of the enemy's Chinese army undoubtedly gave Zhang Fei a little headache, he thought that he could succeed in one stop, but he didn't expect it to be a difficult bone to gnaw, so he didn't expect to break through it easily and kill the enemy's general flag. And this is still under the premise that the enemy army is not prepared, if the Shouchun army is fully prepared in the morning, then now, I am afraid they can only retreat.
But fortunately, they are still moving forward, although the direction of the enemy army is constantly replenished by the reserve of the Shouchun army, although the Cao army continues to fight and rush to support, which makes the enemy army as impassable as a thick city wall, but that glimmer of hope has never disappeared, Zhang Fei will not be willing to choose to retreat, so he can only continue to carry out heart-digging tactics desperately, although this is a bit of a feeling of going to the knife mountain, but he has no choice.
In fact, the cavalry's charge pressure is not very great, the real resistance is where Zong Kou is, he and the infantry have almost all the pressure of the enemy, which makes Zhang Fei a little unexpected, maybe they didn't really want to stop him and the cavalry from the beginning, this reason is very simple, knowing that the cavalry rushed into the formation, when the time came to be under the siege of the regiment, what advantage could the cavalry have?
But the infantry is different, the infantry will go to a sharp sword that pierces the heart, and even if it is not killed with a single hit, it can also seriously injure Zhang Xun, under such a premise, Zhang Xun naturally made the most advantageous choice.
At this point, Zhang Fei has the reason for his mistake, but more importantly, it is obvious that he and Zhang Xun have a big gap in the situation of the battlefield, which makes Zhang Fei can only move forward now, although slowly, but constantly moving forward, while the infantry and Zongkou are unable to move an inch, and almost the current situation has become a situation where he and the infantry are completely separated.
In such a situation, he can only continue to make up for the mistakes he made before, that is, the infantry killed the cavalry in the direction of the cavalry, and the bricks of the cavalry came to the infantry support, and the result became that the two armies fell into a bitter battle at the same time, but the enemy's defense line was like an iron wall, they saw that the other party was not far ahead, but they couldn't move forward half a step, and as a result, the general flag of the Chinese army in the raid was impossible, and the convergence of the two armies became delusional, and now Zhang Fei fell into such a dilemma.
But he had no choice, he couldn't leave the infantry behind, so he knew that this copper wall was actually a bottomless pit, a meat grinder, no matter how much troops were invested, the final result could only be to get into it headlong and end up all killed.
In this case, it's like if you have a pair of fists and fight with twenty people around you at the same time, you are really powerful, but under the fists all around, your pair of fists not only can't hurt people, but also can't protect yourself.
But such a situation will never happen, Zhang Fei will not allow it, you are twenty people, it is impossible for me to hurt you at the same time, but I am aiming at people in one direction, how can you stop me?
A fierce light flashed in Zhang Feihuan's eyes, and he immediately ordered to rush forward with Zhang Ping, no matter what, he had to kill a passage and join Zong Kou.
At this time, Zhang Ping also understood that they had no other choice, if Zhang Fei was still thinking about how to win before the war, now he is thinking about how to make the infantry and cavalry safely fight a way out.
He regretted it a little, to be honest, the current situation can actually be avoided, although when the time comes, there will be a certain price of casualties under the attack and attack of the enemy, but compared to the current situation, it must be a better ending.
But there is no if, and it cannot be assumed, that he chose a choice that almost no one would make, and maybe you can put him in the position of reckless, but this is Zhang Fei, because all he thinks is victory.
It's all for the sake of victory, but after finding that the victory is becoming more and more slim, he can only choose to retreat, although it is difficult to retreat now, but he does not regret his choice, the heart-to-heart tactics are a fight, if it succeeds, 30,000 will defeat the Cao Yuan coalition army of more than 100,000, what kind of scene will it be?
Since it is a gamble, there is definitely a risk of losing, and no one in this world can win all the time, just like on the battlefield, no one dares to guarantee the final victory until the outcome is determined.
The effort was unsuccessful, but Zhang Fei had the confidence to retreat, he couldn't win, and he wouldn't be defeated by the coalition forces, which was Zhang Fei's confidence.
Zhang Fei and Zhang Ping took the lead, with less than 4,000 cavalry left, rushing to the enemy formation from the flank, in front of them were infantry and Zongkou, just need to slash all the way forward, they will get close to him, as long as they meet Zongkou, then everything will be simple.
At this moment, Zong Kou is under almost all the pressure, from the initial two-sided attack to the encirclement on all sides, Zong Kou with his tenacious will to lead the infantry in a circle to defend, no one retreats, they are waiting for General Zhang Fei to arrive, at this moment maybe only Zong Kou will have such confidence, and the soldiers around him seem to be extremely convinced of Zhang Fei's arrival.
In their hearts, Zhang Fei is like Liu Lan's evaluation, he is a god of heaven and a god of war, and no one in this world can stop him, which Zhang Xun did not believe in and Cao Cao did not believe, but when everything happened, everyone believed that Zhang Fei had the ability to turn decay into magic.
Zhang Fei and Zhang Ping joined Zong Kou, which not only greatly reduced their pressure for him, but also led Zong Kou to start a counterattack against Shou Chun and Cao Jun, and began to slowly retreat, wanting to break out of the encirclement.
It is already difficult to be able to converge, and it is even more difficult to fight out of the encirclement, but Zhang Fei does not believe in evil, he rushes left and right, and his round eyes are daunting, no one will be like Zhang Fei, every move will make the surrounding enemy troops fearful, especially his sound like the explosion of spring thunder, which makes their ear drums buzz, and in front of him, they are all afraid to retreat.
"Break out of the encirclement with me!"
Now the first thing is to highlight the siege of the enemy, after the troops are completely safe, and then to consider whether to fight or withdraw next, Zhang Fei has always been unwilling, he finally waited for the opportunity to come to Peixian from Guangling, and finally saw the enemy army in front of him, but the current situation appeared, how could he retreat willingly, and how could he accept the reality of defeat.
He was still thinking about the last stand, and of course, before that, he needed to bring his troops out of the encirclement.
Zong Kou and Zhang Fei converged, and Guan Yu launched a fierce charge against the enemy army, just like Zhang Fei had the confidence to believe that the troops could be killed, after the elite was the Xuzhou army broke through, the battle situation was indeed completely reversed, and the enemy army became vulnerable in front of the Xuzhou army, all this happened too fast, completely beyond Zhang Xun's expectations, and even Cao Cao, who was watching the battle not far away, was surprised, if it was just the Shouchun army that was invincible, he had nothing to say, after all, their combat effectiveness, there was really nothing to boast about, However, even the Yanzhou army retreated one after another, this was not because the strength of the Shouchun army was weak, and the order was immediately conveyed to Cao Ren to lead the troops to personally go up to stabilize the battle situation.
Although Cao Cao's investment in the troops was very large, the real generals were still mainly Shouchun Army, and they only played a cooperative role, but when they saw that the enemy army was about to break out of the encirclement, Cao Cao couldn't sit still, and with Cao Ren personally going out of the battle, the chaos of the Cao army was immediately significantly improved, and the footsteps of the Cao army in retreat immediately slowed down.
In the end, they all stopped, then regrouped, and soon began to attack the Xuzhou army, and for a while, the distance of only a few hundred meters became a real Shura field, and the two sides came and went, and the battle was very tragic.
Everywhere you can see stumps and broken arms, everywhere there are small streams of blood formed by the pooling of blood, and you can see soldiers in different clothes in this short distance, as well as different weapons and flags.
This is the battlefield of cold weapons, cruel and tragic.
The two sides from the fierce attack of the Xuzhou army, and gradually turned into the crazy attack of the Cao army, each other has offense and defense, just like a spring, you go up and I fall, I come up and you fall, and in the end the battle becomes stalemate, at this time, it can be said that they have reached the limit of physical strength, and now they are all gritting their teeth and fighting, and the will to fight has become extremely important, it depends on who can hold on to the end, and the other side will naturally win, and the other side, it goes without saying.
But there is one thing that is easy to be ignored by Zhang Fei, that is, the enemy's strength advantage, but fortunately, there is a sect of Kou who keeps reminding him, otherwise, Zhang Fei would have forgotten all these things a long time ago, and when the time comes, he will not be able to make any moves, and when the time comes, the advantage that he finally won back will become a disadvantage again.
However, the current situation is similar, their advantage is becoming less and less obvious, the enemy's numerical advantage makes Zhang Fei feel that the enemy is inexhaustible, and he originally felt that the way out was ahead, but no matter how he rushed to kill, he never broke out of the encirclement.
And with the continuous devotion of Cao Jun into the battle, and the Shouchun Army, although the two are the first joint operation, but in the past few months they have been running in, and there has been a certain tacit understanding, although the first battle will make them a little strange at first, but soon become familiar with each other.
This made the Xuzhou army finally break out of the encirclement, and instantly fell into the encirclement of the enemy, and the form of the battlefield became dangerous again.
The two sides alternated between offense and defense, killing and being killed, only in a thought, Rao is Zongkou and Zhang Ping have experienced countless battles, and they were also shocked by the tragic scene in front of them, if it weren't for Zhang Fei, the two would have been at a loss, I have to say that Zhang Fei has followed Liu Lan for many years, and he has personally participated in fierce battles I don't know how many, a battle of this scale, although tragic, but it is by no means a battle in which he encountered a tragic crime.
Because of this, he had to be more calm and calm, but just when Zhang Fei was about to despair, suddenly a familiar horn sounded in the distance, and then he saw smoke and dust coming from the rear of the enemy army, and soon the surrounding siege became loose, and then the enemy army began to withdraw in a hurry, and quickly formed a formation.
This sudden change made Zhang Fei a little overwhelmed, but one thing is certain, someone attacked the rear of the enemy army, and this horn, the thick smoke and dust, can have such a scale, at this time, except for Zilong and the dragoon, there will be no other possibility.
However, even if Zhao Yu came, at most it would only make Cao Cao and Yuan Shao give up the encirclement of him, and it was still not very possible for them to take advantage of the victory to launch a fierce attack on him.
The two sides alternated between offense and defense, killing and being killed, only in a thought, Rao is Zongkou and Zhang Ping have experienced countless battles, and they were also shocked by the tragic scene in front of them, if it weren't for Zhang Fei, the two would have been at a loss, I have to say that Zhang Fei has followed Liu Lan for many years, and he has personally participated in fierce battles I don't know how many, a battle of this scale, although tragic, but it is by no means a battle in which he encountered a tragic crime.
Because of this, he had to be more calm and calm, but just when Zhang Fei was about to despair, suddenly a familiar horn sounded in the distance, and then he saw smoke and dust coming from the rear of the enemy army, and soon the surrounding siege became loose, and then the enemy army began to withdraw in a hurry, and quickly formed a formation.
This sudden change made Zhang Fei a little overwhelmed, but one thing is certain, someone attacked the rear of the enemy army, and this horn, the thick smoke and dust, can have such a scale, at this time, except for Zilong and the dragoon, there will be no other possibility.
However, even if Zhao Yu came, at most it would only make Cao Cao and Yuan Shao give up the encirclement of him, and it was still not very possible for them to take advantage of the victory to launch a fierce attack on him.