Chapter 20: The Scouts Are Trapped
Hua Xiong didn't know that the enemy camped east of Xingyang had noticed that they were out of the city, and at this time he was silently standing to the west of the Yanbei Army scout camp, looking at the scout camp in the bright light a thousand steps away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
His men and horses had already scattered in all directions, and he was to encircle the enemy's camp from three directions with 6,000 foot soldiers, and besiege the enemy in the field with three times as many men, not to mention the night battle.
Hua Xiong has the confidence to completely defeat the enemy...... Although Hua Xiong shouted that he would kill all the enemy troops, it was only to boost the morale of his subordinates.
Are Liaodong people so easy to kill? As far as he knew, the soldiers in Yanbei were different from the newly recruited soldiers in the Central Plains, and the thieves who traveled long distances to Youzhou in the Central Plains were just like them, and they were all fought in the bloody wind and rain.
Hua Xiong is not a fool, as long as he can kill them in the night battle, the pursuit after the rout is enough to make this scout army nominal and unreal.
Tightening the fur armor on his body again, and putting on the hook on his left hand, Hua Xiong raised the long knife clenched in his palm, and took the lead in walking towards the light of the bonfire in the distance. As if Hua Xiong's steps were a beginning, the left and right steps behind him surged up like a tide.
A full 6,000 warriors from Xiliang walked towards the camp with their weapons in their hands, and no matter how much they tried to conceal their tracks, the sound of heavy footsteps still seemed terrifying in the quiet night.
But they were only a thousand paces away from the scout camp, and Hua Xiong could even meet them, and the enemy would be scattered by their army before they even put on their armor. Dealing with newly awakened enemies, this is ...... What is that!
In the blink of an eye, when they approached a distance of two or three hundred paces and could enter the position illuminated by the brazier laid on the periphery of the camp, Hua Xiong found that there was no sign of chaos in the camp, but the enemies on the periphery of the camp were all leading their horses and carrying bows and arrows towards their side.
"King Cliff, it's up to you!" Sun Qing turned over and jumped on horseback, waving a pair of ring knives and shouting around the camp: "Enemy attack, enemy attack, enemy attack...... The Han army listened to the order and prepared to shoot with a bow and crossbow! ”
Hua Xiong understood what was going on in the blink of an eye, did these enemies already know that they would attack now?
But now, with 6,000 around 2,000, do you have to go back because you have been discovered? In addition to the camp, the night battle in the dark may give birth to chaos, but it is better to ...... Hua Xiong stomped on the ground violently, and the burly body with a long knife rushed forward, shouting loudly: "If you don't do anything, the Liangzhou soldiers will obey the order, break the enemy, and ravage them!" ”
The roar shook through the four fields, and the Liangzhou soldiers were like rainbows and tigers down the mountain, roaring and roaring and charging up from three sides.
What kind of soldiers have the highest morale in this era? There is only one answer, and that is Dong Zhuo's soldiers. Since the capture of Luoyang, the Liangzhou soldiers no longer have any military discipline constraints, in addition to no more riots in Luoyang, they can run rampant in the countryside at will, plundering all money and property as military funds, as for the ministers of the court who have broken the law, they are even more ruined.
At this moment, it is the time for them to be grateful to Dade and serve Dong Gong!
"Steady, steady, steady......" Su Fuyan held the big bow, slowly opened, his eyes were firmly fixed on the Liangzhou soldiers who were getting closer and closer in the charge, and ordered the Hu warriors not to release the arrows, as the distance got closer and closer, his voice became louder and louder, and finally as he released the bowstring and shot the arrows, the command was almost roaring, "Fa!" Slaughter them! ”
Arrows, shot out with great intensity, traveled through a distance of hundreds or even tens of paces, hitting one enemy after another.
The Liangzhou soldiers also galloped back with short bows in the rain of arrows, and some people on both sides were shot over at any time, and some people continued to charge.
The battle was only a few breaths, almost the time for each person to send out two arrows, Su Fuyan saw the enemy getting closer and closer, and suddenly let out a shrill whistle like an eagle's whistle from his mouth, and then turned over and roared while getting on his horse: "Get on the horse, retreat!" ”
Some of their mounts were shot by arrows and ran around the camp, while others died under the rain of arrows, and the ownerless horses knocked over the brazier, and the whole camp was overturned on their backs.
At the edge of the camp, Tai Shi Ci galloped on a horse with a long lance of Zhangba that Yan Bei had admired, and shouted to Sun Qing and Su Fuyan: "Surrounded on three sides, there is no enemy in the south!" ”
Even though Su Yandang wanted to control the horse and run south, he was stopped by Sun Qing's hand holding the knife, and pointed to the north with the ring knife and shouted: "Ziyi leads the way, we will break through from the north and kill them for a while!" ”
This is a common method of besieging the division in siege warfare, although the enemy leaves a way of life, but in the night when he can't see his fingers, who knows that the way of life is not the place of death? It's better to rush out to the north.
Tai Shi Ci had nothing to say, so he beat the horse and went north, shouting: "The whole army is assembled, break through in the north!" ”
In the whistling, the Wuhuan cavalry shot at the enemy chasing behind him with a bow, and on the other hand, they followed the generals to break through to the north. Behind them, countless Liangzhou people screamed and roared in the skyrocketing flames of the military tents, and charged out with spears held high, besieging every scout who did not have time to mount their horses.
Hua Xiong commanded the soldiers to slash and kill the scouts of the Yanbei Army, and he couldn't help but feel hatred when he saw the enemy galloping and fleeing to the north...... When had he ever seen such a scoundrel enemy, shoot two arrows, get on his horse and run!
Fiercely broke the crossbow bolt stuck in his chest and threw it to the ground, his helmet was shot by pruning during Fang Cai's charge, and his chest was hit by a Youzhou crossbowman at a distance of fifteen paces.
The crossbowman who shot through the armor naturally failed to please him, and was smashed to pieces by Hua Xiong with the back of his knife.
Although it didn't hurt him, it really made him angry...... The reason for his anger was that they came out to attack the camp for fear of being discovered by the enemy, and did not ride horses!
Two or three arrows in the face, shooting two or three hundred people under his command dead and wounded, turned around the enemy and rode on his horse and ran north, which was already annoying enough, but Huaxiong could only watch the enemy run, because he didn't ride a horse and didn't dare to pursue...... Isn't that even more infuriating?
"Strict formation, surround them to death in the camp!" Hua Xiong raised his sword and pointed to the north, and then ordered: "Tell the soldiers not to covet money, and gather all the horses in the camp first!" ”
Hua Xiong calculated in his heart that once the enemy broke through, he would not give in to the pursuit of the foot soldiers. The scattered soldiers snatched the horses to pursue and could not exert their combat power, so they could only gather the horses in the camp first and see how many cavalry they could arm before making plans.
If he could have five hundred horses, Hua Xiong felt that he could lead his troops to chase and kill for a while.
However, looking at the situation, it is not bad that an ownerless war horse can leave a hundred and ten horses.
When the Liangzhou soldiers in the north saw the enemy rushing towards their horses, instead of dodging like the new pawns, they crowded together to form a formation, holding their spears and trying to stop the horses...... The momentum of not being afraid of death made people's hearts beat violently.
This is the ruthlessness of the Liangzhou soldiers, if you can't stab you, you can let the horse come over, and you can't run away if you hit Lao Tzu!
Wuhuan cavalry is not so stupid, although they are called assault cavalry, but the main means of attack is still bow and arrow, when even if they turn their horses' heads to the edge of the Liangzhou infantry formation, each raised their riding bows is a continuous rain of arrows shooting at the infantry in front of them.
The formation was slightly loose by the continuous feathered arrows.
However, the Liaodong scouts in the camp were in dire straits. Except for the enemy forces in the north, the enemies on both the east and west sides were slowly approaching, although they were not as fast as the cavalry, but they were more numerous, and even if the Wuhuan rangers kept shooting arrows, they could not completely break up the human wall in front of them. And there were more and more enemies around, and it was only a matter of time before they fell into the cavalry in the formation as if they were waiting to be slaughtered.
"What should I do?" The most anxious was Su Fuyan, who raised his hand to shoot an enemy in the distance, and kept shouting to Sun lightly: "If you can't leave from the south, we can't get out now!" ”
Sun Qing also panicked, who would not panic at this time, they didn't expect the Liangzhou soldiers to be so tenacious...... In the past, any enemy they encountered was usually rushed to dodge in the face of a large force of cavalry charging, and there were not a few who even trampled on each other, but the people of Liangzhou rose to the challenge, but they did not dare to charge.
They are all light horses, although they have a certain impact, but charging up is nothing more than a situation where both lose and hurt people and turn over on their backs; But with the rain of arrows alone, it was impossible to kill all the soldiers of Eliangzhou who were blocking in front.
Many of these people are holding broken wooden shields in their hands, and they can't block crossbows and foot bows, but it's enough to block the riding bows with a little less strength!
Helpless!
"At this time, there is still a way to survive the desperate charge." Tai Shi Ci anxiously beat his horse and circled, looking around at the enemies surging in all directions, every moment there were cavalry soldiers caught up by the enemy, or died of arrows or swords and spears, but Tai Shi Ci did not panic, but said boldly: "If you are tied to death, there is only one way to die, come and open the way, rush out!" ”
"Fight?" Su Fuyan looked at Tai Shici and then looked at the spear array that those Liangzhou people were trying to raise, and the sharp edge of Lin Li couldn't help but make him feel panicked, swallowing his saliva and asking, "Do you really want to fight to the death?" ”
Several horses circled back and forth, and the Wuhuan riders on the periphery kept trying to find small gaps in the enemy's gradually closing formation and charge out, but they were constantly forced back by the spears raised by the enemy.
"Fight?" Sun opened his mouth lightly and gasped, his eyes widened and he looked left and right, his cold hairs stood up, and he tightly grasped the two ring knives. In the past year, he has been pampered and pampered, and even made him forget the ferocity of fighting for his life in his early years, and finally turned to Tai Shici and gritted his teeth and said fiercely: "It's just desperate, who the hell is afraid of whom!" Come on, come on! ”
"The whole army listens to the order, the arrow formation, and the charge with a certain one!" Tai Shi Ci raised the long lance high, and ran out of the formation loudly, the four-foot lance flashed with cold light, and roared vigorously: "Serve the general in this dynasty, kill through the enemy formation!" ”
"Rush! Kill through the enemy's ranks! ”