Volume 2 Heroes in Troubled Times Chapter 10 Winning the Central Plains Section 42
Chapter 10: Winning the Northwest of the Central Plains Section 42 Battlefield. Both the Western Liang and the Northern Xinjiang Army were exhausted.
Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi's iron cavalry, under the provocation of the Duliao camp, kept counterattacking, but the scale of the counterattack was very small. Although Han Yi and Li Kan's infantry army was still fighting with the Northern Xinjiang Army, because the Northern Xinjiang Army held on to the big formation, in order to preserve their physical strength, they also gave up the full-line encirclement method and used small forces to attack frequently.
So far, Han Sui has not clearly told them the situation of the other battlefields, nor has he allowed them to withdraw from the battlefield before dusk.
Yang Qiu and the others had been in battle for a long time, and they guessed from these anomalies that the battle situation on other battlefields might be unfavorable, so they became more and more cautious, the pace of the attack became slower and slower, and the scale of the attack became smaller and smaller, lest they would be counterattacked by the Northern Xinjiang Army at the last moment and the whole army would be defeated.
After the battle on the middle battlefield, Zhang Baiqi and Yang Ming received Xu Rong's order and learned that the main force of the army was encircling and annihilating Gao Gan on the right flank battlefield, and the army on the middle battlefield was rushing to the right flank battlefield to help, and there were no reinforcements on the left flank battlefield.
In order to complete the containment order issued by Xu Rong, the two were very cautious, and while maintaining a certain offensive, they let the soldiers take turns to rest to ensure that the army could still take the initiative to attack when the Xiliang people retreated in advance, so as to firmly drag the Xiliang people on the battlefield.
As time passed, the sun gradually set in the west, the white clouds were covered with a bright red veil, and dusk was getting closer and closer.
Yang Ming and the Duliao knights were bathed in golden sunlight and lined up, ready to launch a final round of attacks.
The scouts are galloping,
"My lord, General Wei has arrived." Yang Ming was ecstatic and shouted loudly: "Where is it? Where is he? How far is it from us? ”
"General Wei's iron cavalry is located on the west side of the battlefield, five miles away from us." The scout said breathlessly,
"General Wei has a message, please launch an attack immediately to cover his army approaching the battlefield. He will attack from the enemy's flank, and flank the enemy in front and behind with the adults. ”
"Okay, great." Yang Ming threw a punch excitedly, raised his head and roared,
"Tell Master Zhang and ask him to attack later and entangle the Xiliang people. After Lord Wei and I defeated the enemy cavalry, we immediately surrounded the Xiliang people from both flanks. Before dusk, we must defeat them. ”
"Blow the trumpet, blow the trumpet......" Yang Ming raised his spear and galloped in front of the battle,
"Brothers, the last blow, the last blow...... Kill me out......"
The soldiers of ......the Duliao battalion were excited and cheered in unison, and the iron cavalry army slowly started in the dense sound of horns.
The horn of the "woo woo ......" charge was as tight as a burst, roaring all the way with the blood of the sky, and quickly swept over the battlefield.
Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi each commanded the army, and rushed forward with a wild goose formation. This is the last battle, after this battle, it will be dark, and the soldiers on both sides will withdraw from the battlefield to rest, whether everyone can live to see the sun tomorrow depends on this final blow.
Two armies, more than 10,000 cavalry, were launched simultaneously from both ends of the battlefield. For a time, thousands of horses galloped, the sound of killing was like thunder, the huge roar was deafening and rushed straight into the sky, and the smoke and dust rolled up were like two fierce beasts with teeth and claws, each roaring in the sky, crashing into each other with all his strength.
"Boom, boom, boom......" When the two armies met, the dull sound of collision suddenly exploded, and the battlefield shook at this moment.
Then the sound rose into the air, piercing the clouds and cracking stones, shaking the heavens and the earth, and changing color for a while. Sharp arrows roared in the air, bloody weapons howled in the wind, rampaging horses raised their necks and neighed wildly, and the brave and fearless soldiers fought to the death with all their strength, and the battle was unprecedentedly tragic.
A large army suddenly rushed out of the sky, and they were like divine soldiers and generals descending from the sky, stepping on fiery red clouds and wearing blood-colored robes.
The earth trembled violently with a roar. The soldiers of the Duliao battalion shouted wildly, their morale was like a rainbow, and their tired bodies were full of strength, and they were invincible in the killing.
The people of Xiliang were panicked, and the roaring sound of the horn suddenly disappeared, and the army fell into the abyss of fear in an instant.
"Withdraw, withdraw...... Yang Qiu turned his horse's head violently, looked at the sky and shouted,
"Withdraw......" The Xiliang people were in chaos, each fighting their horses and running away, and the battlefield was chaotic. Wei Jun's Ula Iron Cavalry rushed into the flank of the battlefield and slashed down with a sword, and the Xiliang people were immediately defeated.
Yang Ming's Duliao Iron Cavalry then covered up and killed, wantonly slashed the enemy, and killed the Xiliang people so that they turned on their backs and were embarrassed.
"Blow the trumpet, stop the pursuit, surround the Xiliang infantry army, quickly, quickly......" Yang Ming was very sober, he saw that the Xiliang people fled for their lives, and immediately ordered the army to turn around and kill from the flank of the Xiliang infantry army, intending to encircle and annihilate Han Yi.
Wei Jun led the army to travel hundreds of miles in a hurry, the men and horses were extremely tired, after a fierce rush, the physical strength of the army had reached the limit, and at this moment even if they wanted to chase it, they had no strength.
After Yang Ming's horn sounded to stop the pursuit, the soldiers of the Ula Iron Cavalry collapsed on their horses one by one, gasping violently with their big mouths open, and half of their strength was gone.
"Quick, turn, go east and kill and surround the people of Xiliang." Wei Jun was sweating bare and kept screaming in a hoarse voice,
"Whoever dares to let the Xiliang people go, Lao Tzu will cut off his head and skin him, hurry up, ......" The Duliao camp and the Ula Iron Cavalry were divided into two, and rushed to the Xiliang battle array with murderous spirit.
Han Yi saw that the reinforcements from the north of Xinjiang were killed from the west of the battlefield and directly killed the flank of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and he expected that the Xiliang Iron Cavalry would be defeated, so he did not hesitate to give the order to retreat.
"Mingjin, withdraw, withdraw...... The rear army became the front army, and immediately retreated. At this moment, Zhang Baiqi had withdrawn, and he and Yu Yigen commanded nearly 10,000 troops to attack and kill the Xiliang army head-on.
Cheng Yin led the army to meet the battle, and the two sides were fighting fiercely. When the golden gong sounded, Li Kan commanded the rear army to turn around and leave, and Han Yi followed with the Chinese army.
Cheng Yin commanded the front army to desperately block the Northern Xinjiang Army, and fought and left. But no one in Xiliang thought that the people of Northern Xinjiang would give up chasing and killing the defeated Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and suddenly turned around to the east and killed quickly.
Du Liao Iron Cavalry rushed to the left flank of the Xiliang people. The Ula iron cavalry rushed towards the retreat of the Xiliang people, and the two iron cavalry galloped on the empty field, approaching the Xiliang army in a blink of an eye.
Han Yi was shocked, and urgently ordered the Xiliang army to speed up the retreat, and he led a team of personal guard cavalry to fight out, intending to block the enemy cavalry attacking his flank and buy a little time for the army to withdraw from the battlefield.
Almost at the same time, Li Kan also rushed towards the Ula Iron Cavalry with a team of personal guards. If you want to break through, you must fight your way out.
He rushed into the Iron Cavalry and killed three horsemen in a row, but the Northern Xinjiang people did not give him another chance. A horseman flew into the air, a spear in his hand slicing through the air like lightning.
The sharp spear swept past Li Kan's waist and abdomen, and blood immediately shot out. Li Kan shouted miserably, and was about to look down to check the injury, when another spear fell from the sky,
"Flutter" thrust into Li Kan's throat. The main general was killed, and the rear army of the Xiliang people was in a panic. Li Kan's lieutenant general Wu Pei promptly ordered all troops to lead the army to break through at all costs.
The Xiliang soldiers were worried about being surrounded and annihilated by the enemy, and the attack became more violent. Han Yi couldn't resist the fierce Duliao Iron Cavalry and retreated into the formation.
Cheng Yin's army fought alone against Zhang Baiqi and Yu Yigen's army, and was killed in a hurry because of insufficient troops, and retreated step by step.
The Xiliang people were in danger, but the Xiliang people were not in chaos, the formation was still huge, the morale was still high, and more than 10,000 people were still fighting, because the Northern Xinjiang Army on the opposite side could not move.
The Northern Frontier Army, which has more than 20,000 people, has no advantage in encircling the opponent in terms of strength, and after a day of hard fighting, the soldiers are exhausted, and the men and horses are tired, especially the Ula Iron Cavalry, which has traveled more than 100 miles to support, is even more gritted and hard, and has no strength to launch a fierce offensive to destroy the defense of the Xiliang people, so it can only drag the Xiliang people on the battlefield with the advantage of more people.
On the contrary, the people of Xiliang had already broken the boat at this time, and the soldiers held the idea of putting them to death and resurrection, and raised their last remaining strength to survive in death.
However, they also couldn't rush out, because they were not only inferior in terms of troops, but also almost the same as the Northern Frontier Army in terms of physical strength, and it was not easy to keep the formation from chaos.
Han Yi was desperate. If this situation continues, the Xiliang people will collapse sooner or later, and unless Han Sui can defeat the Northern Frontier Army on other battlefields and quickly come to support, this more than 10,000 people will definitely be finished.
Cheng Yin scolded, he scolded Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi. Because the Northern Frontier Iron Cavalry was eager to surround the Xiliang infantry army, after defeating them, they did not take advantage of the situation to pursue and cover for several miles, they were fully capable of reorganizing the army several miles away, and then killing back to help the army break through.
"These two bastards have repeatedly delayed the fighter plane today, and they should be cut with a thousand cuts." Cheng Yin scolded angrily,
"The iron cavalry of the Liao camp in the northern Xinjiang is not as numerous as them, but on the contrary, they are beaten to the point that they cannot move. How can it be that 8,000 iron horsemen could not give us support for a whole day? Han Yi was about to persuade him when he heard the roar of the army in front of him.
The two were shocked, thinking that the Northern Frontier Army had broken through the battle formation, and hurriedly stood up.
"My lord, our iron riders are back, our iron riders are back." The herald flew and roared excitedly,
"The Northern Xinjiang Army couldn't withstand it, and we tore a gap open." Han Yi was pleasantly surprised, and waved his hand again and again,
"Beat the drums, beat the drums, let's rush out......" After Yang Qiu and Cheng Yi fled for five miles, they stopped and regrouped the iron cavalry army.
Yang Qiu was worried that the Xiliang army would be defeated by the Northern Xinjiangese, so he gathered 2,000 people and hurriedly rushed to the battlefield, leaving Cheng Yi to continue to gather fugitives in the rear.
Because of the short time and the frenzied breakthrough of the Xiliang people, the Northern Xinjiang Army has not had time to adjust the deployment of troops.
Wei Jun's 5,000 Ula iron cavalry had to block the enemy in front and divide his troops to surround the enemy's right flank, and the battle formation was extremely thin.
Under the front and rear attacks of Yang Qiu and Wu Pei, the Ula Iron Cavalry lost the frontal battlefield and watched the Xiliang people rush out.
Wei Jun and Yang Ming were powerless, so they could only lead the army to cover the flank of the Xiliang Army, and they could kill as many as they could.
Zhang Baiqi and Yu Di wanted to supervise the pursuit of the army at all, and pursued until the Xiliang people were torn apart, but at this time Xu Rong's order was sent to the battlefield, Xu Rong asked Zhang Baiqi and Yang Ming to defeat the Xiliang army as soon as possible after Wei Jun's Wula iron cavalry arrived, and drive the Xiliang army away from the battlefield, not to encircle and annihilate, nor to inflict heavy damage, as long as they were defeated.
Zhang Baiqi had no choice but to order the army to stop the pursuit. The southeast side of the battlefield. Han Sui's reinforcements were overwhelming.
Ma Chao, Liang Xing, Ma Wan, Jiang Feng, Chang Chang, and Mo Rope each led an army and roared in. Liu Ming and Lan Rong led the army to meet the enemy head-on.
Although the Huns tried their best, the Xiliang people were like a rainbow and attacked like a tide, beating the Huns dizzy and retreating again and again.
Nie Xiao led the Qiang cavalry to kill from the flank, and plunged into the Xiliang reinforcements like sharp arrows.
"Kill Han Sui, kill Han Sui......" The angry roar of the Qiang people resounded throughout the battlefield, and Nie Xiao took the lead, pointing at the spear, and the blocker was invincible.
"Kill, kill into the middle of the battle, kill Han Sui." Ma Chao's spear flew, leading the elite to attack all the way.
The Huns could not resist and suffered heavy losses. Liu Ming bumped into Ma Chao head-on, and the two struck each other with spears and spears, and passed by by mistake.
Liu Ming roared angrily, stabbed the Xiliang cavalry who rushed rapidly with a spear, followed by the sky, flew and jumped onto the enemy's horse, and chased Ma Chao directly.
The two horses were close to each other, and Liu Ming raised his spear and stabbed again. The guards around Ma Chao exclaimed in unison. Ma Dai was in a hurry, so he aimed at Liu Ming and threw out the spear in his hand.
Ma Chao turned around suddenly, grabbed the tip of the spear, and roared angrily with his eyes wide open.
Spear break. Before Liu Ming could react, Ma Dai's spear had already shot fiercely. Liu Ming punched out, and the spear flew away.
The war horse rushed past Ma Chao, and Liu Ming saw a flash of blood, and a bloody war knife had been slashed with thunder.
Liu Ming instinctively leaned over the horse's back, chopped down the sword, and hit the quiver on Liu Ming's back. The quiver, along with the dozens of long arrows in the quiver, was immediately interrupted.
The momentum of the knife is still unabated, breaking through the armor, entering the flesh for three points, and blood is everywhere. Liu Ming was struck by lightning, opened his mouth to sniff miserably, and ran away.
"Kill ......" Ma Chao's war knife was put into the sheath, and the spear flew up, as if entering a no-man's land. Liu Ming was seriously injured, bleeding profusely, and was surrounded by the guards and quickly withdrew from the battlefield.
Lan Rong supported the front alone, precarious. Lei Zi led the army to kill, Ula Iron Cavalry arrows flew like arrows, and the Xiliang people fell one after another, and the offensive was immediately blocked.
The candidate Overseers broke through and joined forces on foot and pushed forward. Nie Xiao's Qiang cavalry was originally on the flank of the Xiliang army, but when he saw Han Sui's battle flag, he immediately went crazy and killed him with a large army.
The Xiliang people seized the opportunity and took the opportunity to increase their troops on the flanks, intending to bypass Liu Bao's frontal resistance and kill them from the flanks.
Liu Bao was shocked and hurriedly ordered Huyan Yuanjia to take a thousand iron cavalry to kill the enemy's flank. Huyan Yuanjia's troops were too small, but they were shot by the long arrows of the Xiliang people.
Tie Yue was killed, and he crashed headlong into the Xiliang battle array. Gao Gan and Zi led the command of the army to storm the battle formation in the northern frontier, and the overwhelming army set off a shocking storm like a roaring tide of rage, continuously hitting the battle array.
The battle array is precarious. Xian Yuyin's injuries are getting more and more serious, but he is resolutely unwilling to withdraw, he wants to sit on the chariot and command, let the soldiers see him, and boost the morale of the soldiers.
Zhao Heng continued to command in his place. When the candidate Xiliang Army tried its best to break through and there was no threat from the rear of the battle array, Zhao Heng resolutely decided to change the formation, change the phalanx to the Glaive Formation, and transfer all the soldiers in the rear of the battle array to the frontal battlefield to block the Yuan army.
The losses of the Youzhou army were very staggering, nearly half of the troops had been killed or wounded, and now even if Zhao Heng transferred all his troops to the front, it would be difficult to hold until dusk.
"Ask for help, ask Koji-sama for help." Koji Yi and Budu even commanded the Xianbei people to deploy on both flanks of the battle formation, and their troops were too small, and although they fought hard to attack, the defense line was already crumbling.
When Koji Yi saw the double rabbit banner erected in the battle array, he was anxious and gave orders one after another.
"Urgently tell Yang Feng and Huaxiong, immediately lead the army to approach the northeast and northwest of the battlefield and surround Gao Gan."
"Urgently tell Gao Lan and Lei Chong, and lead the army to the southwest of the battlefield to block Gao Gan from breaking through."
"Urgently tell Pang De, lead the army to attack and kill the flank of Gao Gan, and disrupt the attack of Yuan's army."
"Tell Zhang He urgently, enter the enemy formation, and attack from behind Yuan's army." Zhang He and Xu Yan commanded the army to break through the enemy formation.
Xin Bi sat in the rear of Yuan's army, fought back, and did not retreat a single step. Bloody hand-to-hand combat ensued between the soldiers of both sides within a few hundred paces.
Zhang He, Hou Cheng, Xu Yan, and Zhao Xuan, the four generals of the unified army, rushed to the forefront and crushed the enemy's defensive positions several times, but Xin Bi immediately organized a stronger battle formation to block it.
Pang De and Feng Qing led their troops to attack the left flank of Yuan's army. The two took turns to lead the army into battle, completely regardless of the cost.
The frantic rush of the Northern Xinjiang Iron Cavalry penetrated the battle formation of the Yuan army several times and approached the Chinese army of Gao Gan. In order to kill this northern iron cavalry, Gao Gan had to gather troops several times to counterattack.
Pang De's attack seriously disrupted Gao Gan's breakthrough rhythm, which won respite for the Youzhou army and Xianbei people who were blocking the enemy head-on.
Gao Ran and Lei Chong led their troops to the west of the battlefield to attack the right flank of Yuan's army. Gao Gan was in a hurry, and rushed to the front of the battlefield with the pro-guard troops, and the assault troops of the sub-rate formed two arrows, attacking from two directions at the same time.
The remnant sun is like blood. Yan Rou, Huangfu Li, Duan Xuan, and Xie Wu appeared on the battlefield with an army of nearly 10,000 cavalry.
Koji Yi was overjoyed and ordered Yan Rou, Huangfu Li, and Xie Wu to lead the iron cavalry to block Han Sui's back road and attack from Han Sui's back.
Ordered Duan Xuan to take 5,000 Tiger Ben to meet Xian Yuyin's Youzhou army as quickly as possible, and block Gao Gan head-on.
Liang Xing rushed to Han Sui's side and shouted in panic: "Sir, there are reinforcements from the Northern Xinjiang Army who have arrived on the battlefield. Let's withdraw as soon as possible. Han Suili ignored him, his expression was cold, and he pointed forward.
"Kill the past, as long as the Huns are cut down, we can rescue the candidates and the besieged Xiliang soldiers."
"Sir, we're going to be surrounded." Liang Xing roared anxiously,
"It's going to be dark, and we're going to be annihilated."
"Hmph......" Han Sui scoffed,
"We will meet the candidates, our strength has increased greatly, what are we afraid of? If we join up with Gao Gan again, we will have 40,000 or 50,000 troops in our hands, and what will the Northern Xinjiang Army use to surround me? Now that the Northern Frontier Army is scarred and exhausted, it can't move. As I said earlier, the two sides are now not competing in terms of the number of troops, but in terms of courage and perseverance. As long as we never give up and persevere, we will be able to safely return to Chang'an. Han Sui waved at him,
"Let's go ahead and kill the enemy. Look at Ma Chao, that is the real warrior of our Xiliang people. Liang Xing sighed softly, and rushed into the bloody battlefield.
Yan Rou, Huangfu Li, and Xie Wu rushed to the rear of the Xiliang army with five thousand iron horsemen, but this did not alleviate the situation on the battlefield, and the Xiliang people moved forward under the command of Han Sui.
Seeing that the reinforcements were getting closer and closer to him, the candidate ordered the army to slow down the pace of the attack, and instead shot the northern iron cavalry with a dense array of arrows, trying to suppress the Huns in front with the arrow array, and help the reinforcements quickly break through the enemy's blockage.
The iron cavalry of Northern Xinjiang was caught off guard and was shot backwards by the arrow array of the Xiliang people. Tie Yue happened to rush to kill on the flank of the Xiliang people, and was shot by this sudden rain of arrows, hit several arrows, and fell off the horse.
Fortunately, his guards were nearby, desperately snatching him out. Tie Yue was seriously injured and withdrew from the battlefield. Liu Bao and Lan Rong were between the two Western Liang armies, and they were unable to parry the enemy on their backs, so they were forced to withdraw to the two wings.
The candidate took the opportunity to attack fiercely, and led a team of guards to attack and kill Dadan Yu Liu Bao. Liu Bao was furious, suddenly counterattacked, and slashed with a hundred guards.
The candidate could not retreat and was shot off his horse by the Huns. Ma Chao roared with the assault front army, the two sides scuffled, and Liu Bao quickly withdrew.
The two Western Liang armies finally met. At the beginning, the candidate brought 7,000 people to rescue the senior cadres, but now the candidate has been killed, and the 7,000-strong army has lost more than 2,000 people, and the losses are heavy.
"Sir, let's withdraw." Ma Chao was covered in blood and said eagerly,
"There are more and more troops in the northern frontier, and once we are surrounded by them, it will be difficult for us to withdraw."
"Forward...... Han Sui pointed ahead and said very resolutely,
"Forward, rescue Gao Gan." Ma Chao looked at Han Sui in disbelief,
"Sir, it's simply impossible." Han Sui sneered, kicked the horse's belly, and continued to move forward,
"If I say I can save it, I will definitely be able to save it." Koji Yi looked at the battle flag of the Xiliang people moving forward, and couldn't help but be angry, and smashed it out with a volley,
"Since you want to die, I will fulfill you."
"Order the generals, each with iron horses, at any cost, to besiege and kill Han Sui." Koji yelled angrily,
"Kill him for me."
"Woo woo ......" under the sunset, the desolate horn roared in the sky, the tragic killing sound was earth-shattering, and a team of northern Xinjiang iron horsemen were like a roaring hurricane, killing the Xiliang army from all directions at the same time, and the thrilling battle suddenly kicked off.
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