Volume 1 Immediately Horizontal Spear Chapter 8 Saber Rattling Section 28
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On the battlefield, the sound of war drums and cheers resounded through the field. In the distance, the desolate whimpering horn faded into obscurity as the iron rider faded away.
Zhang Yan, who was covered in blood, held the battle knife in his hand, looked weakly at the back of the Xianbei people who were gradually moving away, and slowly knelt on the ground. His ears were filled with excited cheers, his eyes were full of bloody stumps and severed arms, but his heart was as painful as if he had been stripped of his internal organs. Zhang Yan slowly lay on the ground, holding her head in her hands, and cried bitterly. Zhang Baiqi stood behind Zhang Yan, looking at his violently twitching shoulders, listening to his hoarse cry, his heart was sad, and tears suddenly soaked his eyes.
Master Xiangkai held the halberd and sat exhausted in a pool of blood, looking sluggish. A few Dazhitang disciples who had survived by luck gathered around him, cheering and jumping with a thunderous roar.
Yu Yigen carried Xiang Yu's corpse, surrounded by a group of Yellow Turban soldiers, and slowly walked towards the rear of the battlefield. He is going to bury his brother with his own hands, and he is going to bury his brother in a place protected from wind and rain, in a place of beautiful scenery, which is the only thing that a living person can do for him.
Xu Rong and Lu Bu carefully put Zhang Liao on the stretcher. Zhang Liao was stabbed by a spear, the blood kept remaining, his face was as white as paper, he looked at Xu Rong and Lu Bu, and said with a sad smile: "If I die, bury me here, with my brothers who died in battle." โ
Lu Bu's heart was sour, tears suddenly flowed, he patted Zhang Liao gently, trying to comfort him, but he choked and couldn't speak. Xu Rong held Zhang Liao's hand and squeezed it heavily, "You'll be fine, you won't die." He waved to the two men, "Let's go." โ
Lu Bu looked at the stretcher that was gradually moving away, and whispered, "I don't know how Lord Ding is?" โ
"Although he was hit by two arrows, neither of them was critical, and it shouldn't be a big deal." Xu Rong comforted, "You find a place to rest and come to the Chinese army in the evening to discuss matters." โ
Li Wei rode a horse, and under the leadership of a few soldiers, he finally found Xu Rong. Xu Rong and a group of Yellow Turban soldiers are cleaning up the battlefield. When Li Wei saw him, he asked angrily: "My lord, Lord Zhang ordered me to rush back to Wuli Pavilion immediately and withdraw all the people and wounded soldiers into Yuanping City. My lord, why is that? Why withdraw? Didn't we win? โ
Xu Rong said with a smile: "Lord Zhang is now the commander of the whole army, you have to listen to him, don't ask why?" โ
Li Wei said in surprise: "Didn't my lord say that no one is allowed to retreat into Yuanping City?" How has it changed now? Do you want to withdraw if you win? โ
Xu Rong sighed: "We didn't win. โ
"Didn't win?" Li Wei said suspiciously, "If we don't win, we can't withdraw." โ
"The situation has changed, and we have to retreat." Xu Rong touched his forehead and said tiredly, "Lord Zhang's order is not wrong, you can carry it out." โ
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At noon on the third day of the battle, Cumulus Ridge.
Luo Luo did not listen to Tuoba Feng's advice, and while scolding Tuoba Feng for temporarily taking away 10,000 iron cavalry from Xianbei in the north, he launched an attack on Cumulus Ridge with his own 5,000 men and horses. Liang Baiwu and Cui Xing commanded the Yellow Turban Army to block the attack, and the two sides launched a bloody battle on a fifty-pace-wide gallop. The Xianbei people took a team of 100 people and took turns to kill. The Yellow Turban Army held on to 2,000 men and did not retreat. Although the Yellow Turban Army has a terrain advantage, the Xianbei people are too fierce, and they broke through the five blocking formations of the Yellow Turban Army in one go, and the little handsome Cui Xing died in battle. Liang Baiwu sent people to Yang Feng for help several times, but Yang Feng ignored him at all and told him to defend and wait until the fight was over.
Seeing that the situation was critical, Tang hurriedly ran to Liang Baiwu's position and told him to immediately arrange for archers to go to the woods on the hillsides on both sides to suppress the attacks of the Xianbei people with a dense array of arrows. Tang Fang said, I have already said that the main force is used to block the gallop on the gallop road, and the two wings are flanked by ambushes, why don't you listen? Liang Baiwu stared at the blood-red eyes and shouted loudly: "We can't block the impact of the Xianbei people in front of us, and the ambushes on both wings are still a fart?" I want people, I want people who can stop the Xianbei Iron Rider. โ
While the two were talking here, the Xianbei people in front of them began to attack again. The Yellow Turban soldiers, who had been killed so badly, could not resist it, and more than 1,000 people dispersed in a hurry, some fled to the mountains, some fled to the woods, but none of them ran behind. These people are very smart, and they know that if they turn around and run back, they will definitely be killed by Liang Baiwu. Yang Feng was furious when he heard this, and sent thousands of people to surround and kill the deserters, "Kill them all for me, and leave no one behind." โ
The vicinity of Cumulus Ridge is full of high mountains, and even if the deserters want to escape, they can't run far, and as a result, their heads are covered with branches.
Liang Baiwu and Tang took the lead, and led the Yellow Turban soldiers in the battle formation behind them to resist desperately, and finally stopped the Xianbei people. Tang Fang lay behind the tree barrier, his face pale, and his heart was desperate. Using such a Yellow Turban Army to defend Cumulus Ridge is simply a joke. Liang Baiwu sat next to him panting, and comforted: "Don't worry, this is just the beginning of the fight, and it will be fine after a while." Those of us who had never fought with the iron cavalry of the Hu people had never fought against the cavalry, and we had no experience in fighting cavalry. After a few battles, everyone gets used to it, and it would be good to find a way. He pointed to his nose and said, "Don't laugh at me, I'm about the same as them." When I saw the general's cavalry rushing towards me, my first thought was to run away, and I didn't dare to meet the enemy at all. โ
Tang Fang saw that he was very serious, and couldn't help laughing, "Then did you run away at that time?" โ
Liang Baiwu smiled, "I shot three arrows, and then I followed the soldiers and galloped, and my speed was definitely not slower than that of a war horse." โ
Tang magnified his heart, and his heavy mood suddenly relaxed a lot, "Then do you think, how long will it take for you to get used to the Xianbei Iron Horse's rush?" When will you have the courage to fight? โ
Liang Baiwu sighed, pointed to the army on the mountain and said, "My lord, what can really fight is the 20,000 people in Yang Shuai's hands, and that is the elite of the Yellow Turban Army." He then pointed to the soldiers standing nearby, and said with a wry smile, "These are Tuntian soldiers, old and small, and there are basically no strong soldiers, otherwise how would they be called to Tuntian?" It's too difficult to expect these people to kill the Xianbei Iron Horseman. โ
Tang Fang's smile stiffened and asked, "I heard Lord Xu say that they have been training for several months. โ
Liang Baiwu smiled, "My lord, these people are basically homeless people who ran to Taihang Mountain after the Great War of Gall Tao, they have not fought any battles except for following us to grab food, and they have not even killed anyone. Although they have been training for several months, they are tuntian soldiers, they have no weapons, they can only train with their bare hands, at most they can only use a stick as a gun, that is also called training? โ
Tang Fang sat on the ground dejectedly and was silent. Of the 60,000 Yellow Turban Army, there are only 20,000 elites, how can this battle be fought? He couldn't help but worry about the Yellow Turban Army on Yanming Ridge.
"But don't worry." Liang Baiwu patted him on the shoulder and said, "The Yellow Turban Army lacks everything, but there is no shortage of people and courage. What we have is blood, and what we have is courage. If we can't kill a Xianbei Iron Rider with ten people, then we will use twenty, thirty, or even fifty people, and we will always kill them in the end. โ
The war horses of the Xianbei people galloped in. Liang Baiwu stretched out his head and glanced at it, spit on the ground fiercely, and then jumped up, raised his spear and roared: "Brothers, raise your spears and kill them with me......"
In the afternoon, the evil rebel gathered 10,000 horses and began to attack Cumulus Ridge. Xiaoshuai Yang Zhen was wounded by an arrow when the Xianbei people broke through the first blocking formation. Yang Zhen scolded, pulled out the long arrow on his shoulder with one hand, and even the blood was not stopped, and he rushed forward again with the war knife. Li Yao commanded his men and horses to shoot arrows intensively from the woods on both sides of the gallop road, and at first he caught the Xianbei people by surprise, but as the Xianbei people launched a second round of attacks, they were immediately met with fierce counterattack by the Xianbei people, and the archers suffered heavy casualties and retreated. At the same time, the Yellow Turban Army on the gallop was also broken through by the Xianbei people one after another. This time, the Yellow Turban soldiers did not flee from the battle, they were frightened by Yang Feng's bloody suppression. Just when the Yellow Turban Army was crying bitterly, the evil rebellion suddenly sounded the horn of retreat. The sun had not yet set, and he withdrew his troops without attacking.
Seeing that the evil rebellion had launched an attack from the north, Luo Luo immediately slowed down the pace of his attack, and not only did not advance an inch in the afternoon, but was repelled a lot by Liang Baiwu's continuous counterattack.
At dusk, the army that participated in the Battle of Yanmingling fled back. Luo Luo first heard that Tuoba Feng had failed to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, and immediately felt that it was not good, and then he heard that his two heroes had died in battle, and that the 10,000 iron cavalry had also lost more than 3,000 people, and he couldn't help but be shocked and angry. He thought about it for a long time and categorically decided to withdraw from the army.
The reason why he sent troops to Yanmen Pass was entirely because he was strongly persuaded by Murong Feng. Murong Feng was worried that Tuoba Feng would be unfavorable to Kui Tou and worried about Kui Tou's safety, so he asked Luo Luo to personally lead his troops to Yanmen Pass to help. After all, the leader is the grandson of the king Tanshi Huai, the son of Huaizong, after the old man, and now he is also the king of Xianbei and the owner of Danhan Mountain, so he can't talk about it at all. Third, of course, because he can get rich benefits after laying the Yanmen Pass, which is the most exciting temptation for him.
But now the temptation that made him most excited had become very slim with Tuobafeng's futile blow. The 40,000 iron cavalry failed to defeat the Yellow Turban Army, which was obviously the best plan of the Han people. Yesterday, Tuoba Feng defeated 30,000 Yellow Turban Army with more than 20,000 horsemen, and almost completely annihilated, but only one night later, the situation suddenly changed dramatically, and the Yellow Turban Army was like a divine help, and with 50,000 people, it withstood the onslaught of 40,000 iron cavalry of the Xianbei people. In this case, if you want to say that the Han people have no tricks, he will not believe that he will kill him.
He sent people to quietly climb over Cumulus Ridge, rushed to Yanmen Pass as fast as possible, and reported to the king Kuitou, saying that Tuoba Feng had defeated the Yellow Turban Army, and hoped that the king would quickly defeat the Yellow Turban Army with him in the north and south, capture Cumulus Ridge, and quickly follow Tuoba Feng to attack Jinyang in the south. Luo Luo knew that he must not tell the truth at this time. Once the king knew about the battle of Yanmingling, the leader might think that they had been completely surrounded by the Han people and were about to be annihilated by the Han people, and he might have to quickly leave Yanmen Pass with the army and return to Danhan Mountain. He would never let what happened to him happen to him again. Without the support of the king's army, it would be difficult to say the fate of himself and Tuoba Feng. Do the Han people really want to encircle and annihilate us? Do they have the strength? He suddenly remembered the Great War in the Western Frontier. With leopards in northern Xinjiang, anything can happen.
The more Luo Luo thought about it, the more chilled he became, turned over his horse and galloped towards Yanming Ridge.
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On the night of the third day of the battle, Yanming Ridge.
Zhang Yan and Xu Rong summoned all the subordinates to discuss the matter in a tent that was temporarily set up.
Huang Ting first reported to everyone the results of today's battle, "According to the number in the reports of various ministries, today we beheaded about 15,000 Xianbei people and lost more than 19,000 people, including more than 2,000 wounded soldiers sent to the rear. โ
Zhang Yan sat by the fire, looked up and asked, "Xianbei people?" How many bearded Xianbei people have we killed? โ
Huang Ting flipped through the scroll and replied, "More than 13,000 people. โ
"Are there any captives?"
"No, the Xianbei people, whether they were lightly injured or seriously injured, were hacked to death by our soldiers."
Zhang Yan thought for a moment and asked, "In the past three days, how many Xianbei people have we buried in total?" โ
Huang Ting looked at the scroll and said, "On the first day, we killed more than 14,000 enemies, and more than 3,700 were Xianbei people. The next day, we killed more than 6,000 enemies, more than 5,000 of whom were Xianbei people. Together with the more than 13,000 Xianbei people today, we have killed more than 21,700 Xianbei people in total. โ
"Destroy 35,000 enemies in three days." Zhang Yan said, "When the Xianbei people entered the pass, the scouts said that there were about 80,000 people, so it means that there are still 45,000 Xianbei iron horsemen in the pass. We're still going to kill, we're not killing enough. He looked at Huang Ting and asked, "Is there a reward for today's scout?" โ
"Yes." Huang Ting said, "Today Cumulus Ridge is very fierce, and we have suffered a lot of losses. To the south of Cumulus Ridge, the Fallen Monk defeated us for a day with 5,000 men, and to the north of Cumulus Ridge, Kuitou's younger brother Evil Rebellion gathered 10,000 men and fought from afternoon to dusk. At present, Kuitou is carrying 5,000 people at Yanmen Pass, Luoluo and Evil Returning to Rebellion are carrying about 15,000 people at the north and south ends of the Cumulus Ridge, and Tuoba Feng is still 25,000 people on Yanming Ridge. 30,000 of the Xianbei people's 50,000 troops were surrounded by us south of Cumulus Ridge, and it would be very difficult for us to annihilate these 30,000 people. โ
"It is impossible to annihilate them all, but they still need to be hit hard." Zhang Yan said, "Xianbei people have not died enough, and we have not achieved our goal yet." โ
"Dashuai, how will you fight tomorrow? Are we going to take the initiative tomorrow? Today, the Xianbei people were beaten away, and tomorrow, they may not take the initiative to attack. Wang Dang said hatefully, "The Xianbei people really don't have the courage, we haven't killed enough today, they actually escaped." We still have 40,000 people left, and if we take the initiative to challenge the 30,000 Iron Cavalry, there is no chance of winning, and the last bit of seed of the Yellow Turban Army will probably be lost. โ
Zhang Yan slowly glanced at everyone and said firmly, "Let's retreat to Wuli Pavilion immediately." โ
There was a dead silence in the tent, and everyone was dumbfounded, barely believing their ears. Wang Dang roared loudly: "Dashuai, what did you say? Fall back? โ
Zhang Yan nodded and said again: "Retreat." โ
Wang Dang stood up suddenly, his eyes were about to split, and he pointed at Zhang Yan and roared angrily: "You want to retreat? We died almost 60,000 people in three days, for what? Isn't it just to defend Yanmingling, in order to block the Xianbei people? Could it be that so many of our brothers died in vain? Since you want to retreat, why do we want to defend Yanming Ridge? Why? โ
Yu Yigen and Zhang Baiqi hurriedly jumped up and pulled him back. Wang Dang burst into tears and cried out loudly, "Why? Why retreat? What kind of battle are you fighting? What kind of bullshit are you, the commander of the Yellow Turban Army? The Yellow Turban Army has finished fighting you a battle, and you are about to retreat, what are your intentions? Who dares to say retreat again, Lao Tzu will cut him now. โ
Zhang Baiqi glared at Wang Dang and shouted, "Heizi, don't talk nonsense." โ
Zhang Yan slowly stood up, glanced at the angry generals, and said with a wry smile: "I know that in the past few days, everyone has a very big opinion of me, thinking that I am blindly commanding and burying the entire Yellow Turban Army. โ
"Yes, I don't have much talent, if I had the ability, I wouldn't have brought the Yellow Turban Army to such a situation. I'm just a fatherless and motherless orphan, and I'm just a kid who carries a medicine basket for a great sage and teacher. I barely read a few books and read a few words, and like everyone else, I'm just an ordinary person. I'm not God, I don't know what's going to happen tomorrow, I don't know if I'm going to win or lose this battle, and I don't know if I'm doing right or wrong. I only know one thing, and that is that I will do everything I can to achieve the goal of this great war. As long as I achieve the goal of the war, no matter what other people or even future generations say about this war, it doesn't matter, whether I command it right or wrong, it is meaningless. โ
"Whether you call me a rebel, call me an idiot, or say that I buried the Yellow Turban Army, I am powerless to defend it, because this battle has not yet been fought, and no one knows the outcome in the future, but if you think that I have made a mistake in this battle, commanded the wrong one, and no longer obey my orders, I will never be polite, and I will not be soft on those who should be killed. There is no god here, I will leave this battle to you, and any of you can pat your chest and say, I can win this battle, who can? If any of you think that you are a god and that you can decide the outcome of the war, then please leave here and become your own god. The Yellow Turban Army does not want an omnipotent, omniscient and invincible god, the Yellow Turban Army only needs soldiers who fight bloodily with swords. โ
Zhang Yan looked at the angry Wang Dang, pointed at him, and asked loudly: "Heizi, let me ask you, why did we give up Yanmen Pass and fight this battle in Yanmingling?" Zhang Yan pointed to the generals and said angrily, "Before the war began, I told you countless times about the purpose of fighting a war, but who of you still has it in mind now?" You know how many people the Yellow Turban Army has died, the Yellow Turban Army is finished, you only have the Yellow Turban Army in your heart, where is there still the Great Han Kingdom, there is also Northern Xinjiang, there are also the annexed states, and there are millions of people in the annexed states. โ
"I repeat, give up Yanmen Pass, lure the enemy to Yanming Ridge, and set up this battlefield of defeat, with only one purpose, that is, to kill more Xianbei people, and kill more Xianbei people at all costs. As long as we kill fewer and fewer Xianbei people, especially Tuoba Feng in the northern Xianbei, then the balance of strength of the Xianbei tribes will be broken by us, and the Xianbei people will be worried that their territory will be attacked by other tribes, the Xianbei people will quickly withdraw from the border counties, the Xianbei people will have civil strife, we will be able to get a respite, and the crisis in the northern Xinjiang will be completely solved by us. I've said it countless times, why don't you understand? โ
"Stubbornly guarding Yanmen Pass, can we solve the crisis in northern Xinjiang? Can you make the Xianbei people fall into civil strife? Can the Xianbei people be powerless to invade? I am also saddened by the death of my brothers, but if the death of tens of thousands of brothers can be exchanged for the stability of the Great Han Kingdom, the stability of Northern Xinjiang, the safety of millions of people in Bingzhou, and the time for a few years of recuperation in Bingzhou, what is not worth it? โ
"When I deployed the battle formation in the Longshan camp, I repeatedly told you that the Xianbei people are very cunning, and they are not absolutely sure that they will fight a decisive battle with us. Especially Tuoba Feng, he experienced a crushing defeat in the western frontier, and he was even more cautious in his southward invasion, lest he repeat the mistakes of the past. Everyone once said that Xianbei people were ambushed in the Beishan and Wushan areas, what was the result? The tens of thousands of Xianbei troops marched south with 5,000 people in a formation, every five miles, how can we concentrate superior forces to ambush in this formation? If you rush up, you will be surrounded by Xianbei people. And most importantly, the Xianbei people know that we have an army of 200,000 and will definitely flee back to Yanmen Pass. So, what do we do when we give up Yanmen Pass? If we give up, we must do everything we can to hit the Xianbei people hard, beat them to the ground, and then drive them out of Yanmen Pass, otherwise, we will be the sinners of the Han Kingdom through the ages. โ
"The purpose of our 50,000 Tuntian soldiers in the Horse Rejection Formation and the Middle Blocking Formation is nothing more than to make Tuoba Feng feel that the Yellow Turban Army is vulnerable and induce him to gather a large army to launch a final blow against us. As long as he is fooled and gathers the army to Yanmingling, then there will be no main force of the Xianbei people on the Baili Chi Road from Yanmen Pass to Yanmingling, and Yang Feng's army can take the opportunity to occupy Cumulus Ridge and gain a firm foothold in Cumulus Ridge. And the appearance of Yang Feng also forced Tuoba Feng to make up his mind to fight us as soon as possible, so as to make a decisive battle. โ
"On the first day of the battle of the Horse Rejection Formation, we all thought that the combat effectiveness of the Tuntian soldiers was good, but we didn't expect that the iron cavalry of Tuoba Feng would slaughter them wildly on the second day. Although we have used 50,000 elites and ballistas to strike at the Xianbei people today, the people we have killed are not enough to avenge them, and we have to kill and wound them in large numbers. โ
"Since you still want to hit the Xianbei people, why do you want to retreat?"
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