Chapter 32: The Battle of Liang County
Sun Jian's soldiers and horses, after lying in ambush on the slopes of the northeast of Liang County, surrounded large fields from three sides, just waiting for Han Dang to attract Hu Zhen here. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Sun Wentai didn't look down on Hu Zhen, but a little trick caused him not to dare to attack, what is there to be afraid of such a bold leading general? Sun Jian was even a little worried about whether he had left the wrong general. Han Dang, who came from Youzhou, was a rare fierce general under his command, and if he was not careful, he would turn the battle of luring the enemy into a storm.
In fact, just as he thought, Han Dang's surprise attack on Hu Zhen south of Rushui Bridge shook Hu Zhen's heart, not to mention anything else, the arrow from a distance injured his arm, which made Hu Zhen retreat cowardly, eager to retreat into his own army line and never come out again.
But the raid had just begun at this time, and Han Dang seized the opportunity to fight more and more bravely, and the long knife was even more invincible. The generals who followed Sun Jian's expedition to the south and the north will be afraid of the battle formation of the Liangzhou people, joke!
He doesn't know how many times he fought such a battle!
The strength of the Jiangdong soldiers, one in Chu since ancient times, the people have been fierce, and there are endless people who can fight well, but it is also because Jiangdong has a good bow. There are more resilient wooden poles in the south, and most of the strong bows made are more suitable for long-range shots than the Central Plains bows.
Among the 2,000 soldiers under Han Dang's command, there were 300 Wujun longbows, although this number is not much, but if you compare the more than 1,000 Liangzhou soldiers who crossed the bridge, it is definitely a lot.
The roaring arrow rain of Wujun's elite soldiers continued to be thrown, and those Jingzhou new soldiers also rose forward to slash and kill because of Han Dang's bravery, constantly impacting the formation of the Liangzhou soldiers. No matter how brave and good the Liangzhou soldiers were, they couldn't resist the continuous impact of Han Dang's troops when the Rushui Bridge behind them was in chaos...... Every impact, every falling arrow rain, is the rapid attrition of the Liangzhou soldiers, and even the front and rear are separated by the arrow rain projectile.
Crumbling front.
In less than a moment of engagement, the Liangzhou soldiers had already lost hundreds, but Han Dang's troops did not seem to have suffered any damage.
In such a battle, Han Dang relied on his own martial arts and courage to run rampant, the long knife suddenly swung out and swept away a piece of enemy troops, seeing that it caused a lot of damage to the Liangzhou soldiers, Han Dang killed a way to fight the horse and left, for a while the Liangzhou soldiers had no time to react, and the Central Plains soldiers who had been surging before had already retreated.
When Han Dang's headquarters withdrew dozens of steps, Hu Zhen on the bridge reacted and hurriedly shouted and ordered the soldiers to pursue. Seeing that the enemy army was the first to retreat, the Liangzhou soldiers were no longer invincible and pursued one after another.
Chasing thirty or forty steps, Han Dang, who had previously hit the horse and walked, suddenly looked back, hundreds of foot soldiers with strong bows opened their bows and struck, and the arrow rain on the head of the head whistled and shot nearly 100 Liangzhou soldiers again, just when the Liangzhou soldiers dodged the arrow rain, Han Dang caught the horse and rushed back, and the knife fell again and cut off a few good heads, the left and right Liangzhou soldiers could not stop, and the Liangzhou soldiers did not dare to get close to him for more than ten steps.
"Hahaha!"
Han Dang raised his sword and rode his horse, and laughed when he saw the cowardly appearance of the Liangzhou soldiers who did not dare to step forward, and even cast his fierce gaze on Hu Zhen, who was protected by the Liangzhou Corps on the bridge in the formation, and raised the long knife to make a threatening action.
Then there was a long laugh, and Han Dang led his troops to leave.
Where has Hu Zhen ever been so insulted, rushing at his army with 2,000 soldiers and horses, even if he kills him, he still dares to laugh in front of the battle?
Looking at the formation of the southern soldiers leaving, Hu Zhen's face was pale and annoyed. Where is this a big battle, it was obviously a one-sided slaughter, and the enemy army took advantage of his unpreparedness to lead troops on the bridge, and his formation was not spread out at all...... If he retreats like this, won't he be underestimated by the generals of Liangzhou and Dong Gong?
"Order, chase and kill the enemy, they have foot soldiers to drag them and can't escape far, pursue, pursue!" Hu Zhen angrily drove his soldiers across the Rushui Bridge, leaving only more than 1,000 foot soldiers to collect the corpses of his fallen subordinates, and led more than 6,000 cavalry to follow the trail of the southern soldiers fleeing and chase away.
He vowed to take the head of the arrogant general in the southern army, otherwise it would be difficult to solve the hatred in his heart!
Han Dangcai didn't care how angry Hu Zhen was, after leading the army to run for a mile, Han Dang lost his appearance of showing off his martial arts, and cautiously let the infantry flee to the east to cover the retreat route, and ran south alone with most of the cavalry.
He has done enough of what he can do, if the enemy general does not pursue, then he has no way, now he can only obey the fate of heaven and join forces with the general as soon as possible.
However, ten miles away, Sun Jian's soldiers and horses had been waiting for a long time, and from a distance, he saw Han Dang leading a cavalry to run here, and there was a large area of dust behind him.
Sun Jian's face was overjoyed, it was obvious that the enemy had taken the bait and was lured by Han Dang!
"Huang Gongfu led the troops to sit in the south. Darong led troops to the left flank, and Demou was on the right flank. Sun Jian had a red curtain on his head, raised his sword and led the horse to be extremely strong, frowned and glanced at the north, and gave an order: "The good son of the Sun family, follow me around the enemy's rear from the right flank, cut off its retreat, and be sure to annihilate the enemy!" ā
At this moment, there was no need to say anything, and all the generals under his subordinates accompanied the southern expedition to the north to understand the purpose of their generals, and immediately led the troops as promised, while Sun Jian slowly walked towards the enemy's rear road.
As for the middle of the encirclement, you can already see the Liangzhou army cavalry in the distance, and there is no formation at all, scrambling to chase and kill Han Dang's cavalry. After the transfer of foot soldiers, Han Dang's subordinates were all county soldiers recruited in Jingzhou, and they were not able to fight alone, not to mention that they were still facing the extremely angry Liangzhou soldiers, once they were caught up, there was no need to say much about the battle situation.
Hu Zhen was excited, the Sun generals who had previously flaunted their might had even lost their headbands at this time, and their subordinates were all dragging their flags and fleeing in embarrassment. He could even think that he would be able to catch up with them by pursuing them for another mile, and then outflank and encroach, and finally the head of this general must belong to him!
It's just a child who only dares to rely on the power of the earth!
Suddenly, I didn't know if the rider would lose his mind and go crazy or if he knew that he had no way out, so he shouted loudly in the formation to boost the momentum of the soldiers, and then came back with a sword and a prancing horse!
Isn't that stupid?
Hu Zhen smiled disdainfully, and with a wave of his hand, he ordered the soldiers to meet the battle, only a few hundred soldiers, could they still be the opponent of their more than 6,000 horsemen?
Joke!
But at the time of the engagement, the first three sides of the left and right suddenly erupted with the sound of shouting and killing, and behind the hillside, the soldiers and horses with the banner of Sun Zi rushed down with the momentum of rolling thunder, and for a time they faintly formed a siege of them!
"What, Sun's child actually dares to set up an ambush here?" Hu Zhen couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly reined in his horse, at this time he lost his cool and couldn't explore the surrounding battle situation at all, and he didn't even see how many soldiers and horses were ambushed on three sides around, so he hurriedly urged the horse to order the soldiers to retreat. "Retreat, retreat, we have been ambushed by the enemy!"
If he is calm enough, he can find that in fact, the enemy who is surrounded on three sides is only four or five thousand soldiers and horses, not to mention that this place is an open land, and there is no more enemy to hide behind the hillside, as long as he has the courage to charge forward, it is still possible to break through the enemy's encirclement line, and even rely on the bravery of the Liangzhou soldiers, even if the defeat is turned into victory.
But he was not calm enough, and when the crisis came, he only thought about quickly withdrawing from the encirclement of the enemy army.
Who is Sun Jian, a descendant of Sun Wuzi, not to mention the family history, Sun Jian has embarked on the road of conquest since he was more than ten years old and scared away pirates on the shore, even if it is not too much to call it a god, how can he let him escape from the encirclement?
The so-called art of war, in addition to training and manipulating soldiers, is actually mostly a mental technique in the battle formation, and all arrangements are based on guessing what kind of arrangement the enemy will react to. It's like playing chess, guessing a few more moves from your opponent, and the outcome of the art of war becomes very different.
After all, how many road directions are there in a battle formation, even if you have an absolute superiority in strength, you can't bury all formations in a killing formation, and you will inevitably leave a few ways to survive, in order to arrange more subordinates on the dead end.
And what Sun Jian arranged is that as long as you move forward in the three directions of the front, it is all a way of life, and the only way to die is to retreat!
As soon as Hu Zhen ordered him to retreat, Sun Jian knew that he had won the battle.
More than 2,000 archers who were lying in ambush on the hillside suddenly stood out, and under Sun Jian's order, they threw arrows at the enemy.
The archers on the hillside didn't make Hu Zhen think too much, and even Hu Zhen shouted at his subordinates, telling them to hurry through the range of the archers, and it seemed that it was safe to escape from the range.
With such an order, the subordinates will not care about what formation, and the unified unit will run towards the north like a refugee. Once the soldiers and horses are unable to form a formation, it will be like a rout...... And the greatest casualties in a battle often occur after a rout.
Seeing the collapse of the enemy army, the four generals led by Han Dang stepped up their pace, and all of them rose up to chase and kill the enemy army, and in a moment they split the rear of the enemy army into several small battlefields, eating away at the Liangzhou soldiers who began to surrender.
Just when Hu Zhen was able to lead the scattered rebel army to escape from the range of the archers, suddenly hundreds of elite horsemen charged from the north, and the bloody Sun Zi banner was waving in the wind, and one of his generals rushed across the horse and heavy sword, ignoring the surrounding rout and fleeing rebels, and went straight to Hu Zhen's banner.
"Koto! Sun Wentai is here! ā
In a hurry, Hu Zhen couldn't even raise his weapon to resist, and saw the bright red red curtain flash out of the corner of his eye, and then the sky swirled.
The cavalry behind Sun Jian used spears to provoke their heads, and Sun Jian held a knife in one hand and a spear in the other and shouted loudly in the formation, "The enemy will be killed by my Sun Wentai, and those who surrender will kneel to avoid death!" ā
"The enemy general is dead, kneel to avoid death!"
"The enemy general is dead, kneel to avoid death!"
On the rapidly changing battlefield, Shan shouted the slogan of ordering the Liangzhou soldiers to surrender, and at every moment on the battlefield, the lost Liangzhou soldiers were still slaughtered. Those Central Plains soldiers, who were originally underestimated, completed the first transformation into long-fought soldiers in this feast of chasing deserters.
When hundreds of Liangzhou soldiers were prostrate and begging to surrender, Sun Jian rode his horse and held his spear, raised his head high, and the corners of his mouth hooked up with pride.