Chapter Ninety-Three: The Battle of Bluestone Bridge [6]
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Today, he has to make a winning fight. There was already suspicion in the eyes of his subordinates when they looked at him, these generals were not his subordinates, and he was not the leader of the rebel army, and he did not have so much control over his subordinates. The so-called orders, in addition to his superior official position, only the soldiers were left to believe that only he could lead everyone to victory!
If there is another defeat, even if there is only one, even if there are another thousand unprovoked casualties, this counterinsurgency battle can no longer be fought.
Because by that time, he would have already lost!
The distance between the two armies was only one mile, and the soldiers and horses on the right flank had already detoured to the right side of the enemy.
The whining horn was blown, the golden drums of the army sounded in unison, and thousands of people began to march forward, and the queue was extremely regular, marching east with a strong oppressive force.
The two sides were five hundred paces apart, and the foot soldiers and crossbowmen began to run, and the longbowmen raised their heads with their fine Han bows and fired volleys, and for a time the arrows rained down like locusts.
The distance was too far, and some of the nervous rebels let go of their bowstrings, and the sparse arrows fell weakly in front of their own archers, causing no casualties!
Meng Yi clenched his fists, surrounded by his subordinates, and slowly advanced, the crossbowmen were four hundred paces apart, and entered the range of the enemy, running quickly with a strong crossbow. The rigors of training allowed them to keep their speed through the rain of arrows, and everyone knew that the faster they ran at this point, the better they would have a chance of surviving.
Three hundred paces apart!
The crossbowmen knelt in a line, and the crossbow arms that had already been drawn were attached to short arrows, and the foot soldiers carrying the large shields stood still in front of them, raising the large shields of more than half their bodies to shield them from the incoming damage, and the sound of the broken strings suddenly sounded, although there were fast and slow, and they could not do it uniformly under the threat of the rain of arrows, but those crossbow arrows also shot straight out, causing enough damage to the enemy!
With just one shot, at least seventy of the rebel cowards hiding behind the fence fell!
Meng Yi let out a sigh, and his clenched fists gradually loosened. Seeing the current situation, he couldn't help but hook the corners of his mouth a little easily, and shook his head, Meng Yi admitted that it was the short defeat before that made him a little too nervous. A rebel is a rebel, and the armor is not good, although the ability of the rebel leader to command the soldiers and horses is really not bad, but after all, it is like this.
The second round of archers' arrows had already rained down on the enemy's heads, and the rebels' casualties continued, but at the moment it seemed that they had little ability to fight back. It wasn't just their own side that attacked them, there were no wooden fences on the left and right of their camp, and the soldiers on both wings could inflict an even more ferocious attack on them!
But...... What about left-wing centaurs? Why didn't the left flank attack?
Meng Yi could only see that his subordinates on the right flank launched a fierce attack on the enemy's formation, and the enemy's left flank had no defense at all, where did the two thousand soldiers and horses on his left flank go?
Then, near the central battlefield, he saw that the Hu cavalry, which numbered only two hundred, and the infantry archers who numbered nearly a curve at the bluestone bridgehead were fighting with his left flank.
Relying on their superb horsemanship and accurate archery skills, those galloping horsemen wandered outside the range of their own army formations, quickly advancing and shooting deadly arrows from forty or fifty paces away, and quickly escaped from the range with the help of horsepower. What's more, he raised his head and fired his bow from a hundred paces away, and the rain of arrows fell into his own army formation without accident.
Two thousand soldiers and horses, ten times their size, but the dense formation also made them throw an arrow at will within a hundred paces, as long as it did not fall vertically into the military formation, they could always shoot people.
On the other side, the Qubu archers also relied on the left flank of the Han army to have no horse army, and used light bows and strong crossbows to contain them remotely, and constantly threw arrows in the middle of the battle.
The enemy was so small that they could not even achieve much in long-range combat, but the direction of their battle and retreat was gradually moving away from the battlefield, and the left flank of the Han army could only choose to follow. If they can't completely defeat the men, they will stick to the left and right of the formation, throwing arrows constantly.
Meng Yi quickly deduced all possible scenarios in his mind, the choice of frontal combat was abandoned by him at the first time, the enemy's wooden fence determined that he could not achieve big results in the long-range threat of both sides, the right wing of the soldiers and horses performed well, but the left wing was already pinned down and could not defeat the enemy in the fastest situation.
Almost immediately, he went on to reject the idea of turning the right flank behind the enemy's back, which would then be able to flee from the south. Meng Yi decided, "Divide the troops!" ”
With the roar of the veteran on the battlefield, the more than 4,000 subordinates of the Chinese army were divided into two in the fastest time, one was led by the deputy general to the right flank as reinforcements, and Meng Yi personally led his subordinates to the left.
Since you are holding back my left flank, I will attack as a left flank!
"Give the order to the right flank, and when reinforcements arrive, surround the rebels from behind!"
A good general must know how to use the situation to fight. Just as Lu Yi took advantage of the terrain and more than a thousand archers held the bluestone bridge and took the lives of nearly a thousand of his subordinates, Meng Yi also saw the 'momentum' in his favor in this battle.
The wooden fence that ran north-south was his disadvantage, blocking his arrows, and even after the foot soldier charged, it would block his hand-to-hand combat. But if his soldiers and horses form a circle on three sides, this wooden fence will be his advantage.
The enemy could not retreat from the west, and with the enemy surrounded on three sides, the rebels had no choice but to surrender or die...... Meng Yi wanted them to surrender, this rebel general was a talented man, and if he wanted to, Meng Yi would not mind taking him under his command and paving a way for him to join the army.
The battle situation is changing rapidly, Yan Bei looked at the changes in the military situation of the two sides from afar, his face turned red and white, he clenched his fists and laughed once, and his face was gloomy and silent. And at this moment, he discovered the disadvantage of Koji.
If this fight continues, Lu Yi can no longer be changed when he is besieged, and a song of soldiers and horses released from the outside and his righteous servants cannot escape from the enemy four times his size, thinking of this, Yan Bei hurriedly shouted: "Quick, pass the order Gao Lan, support Lu Yi!" Tell Zhang Leigong to let him attack from Beishan! ”
Beishan to the battlefield, a distance of ten miles, Zhang Leigong in the case of ensuring combat strength even if the fastest speed to come over, it will be half an hour, now it depends on whether Lu Yi and Gao Ran can support the Han army's attack in half an hour.
In war, there is no one who is not brave, because cowards will die on the battlefield.
The change of troops flowed smoothly, and Lu Yi saw Meng Yi change formation, thinking that the Zhonglang of the imperial court would really form a left and right flanking attack according to his own conjecture, but before he had time to be happy, he saw that the Han army's large array was suddenly divided into two, and rushed out to the left and right respectively, and secretly said in his heart that it was not good.
This man wants to be surrounded on three sides!
At that moment, Lu Yi ordered his subordinates to retreat to the rear, while defending the enemy with bows and crossbows. He knew very well that he must not let the enemy surround him, otherwise the rear army would not be able to rescue him, and if the three thousand soldiers and horses were lost, it was very likely that even his own life would be left here.
The two armies were most afraid of rout, and as soon as the people retreated, the courage in their hearts was dispersed, and the enemy pursued and fought fiercely. After a stalemate for a long time, Meng Yizhong's army in the west and the right wing of the Han army in the south caused more than 300 casualties to his subordinates.
This was not the worst-case scenario, the 500-foot archers who remained on the periphery to contain the enemy's left flank were already fighting each other, and at this time they lost the Chinese army, and in the blink of an eye, the panic broke and fled, and the rest were surrounded by the enemy.
Seeing that the battle situation was not good, he hurriedly beckoned the riders to retreat with the Chinese army, leaving behind more than 30 corpses, and retreated all the way to the east.
In a matter of moments, the tide of battle was turned.
Meng Yi drew his Han sword and swung it in the air, shouting an order to order the army to pursue the defeated enemy army. Three lines of soldiers and horses, two in front and one in the back, suddenly pursued in the direction of the rout of Luyi.
Lu Yi crossed his horse and raised his spear in the army, shouted and shouted, turned his horse's head to look at the smoke and dust of the three-way army where he dared to stop, and hurriedly pointed to the eastern woodland and shouted: "Run over there, keep the formation and don't be chaotic!" ”
The more crisis there is, the more chaos you can't have, and those who have been soldiers understand this truth, once they are pursued and then messed up, it will most likely be a death.
But when it comes to things, there are very few people who can really stay in danger, and panic spreads like an infectious disease in the army. If the enemy only has foot soldiers and runs at similar speeds, who can be much worse?
But Meng Yi is a veteran of the battlefield, so he naturally knows when to make what moves, and at this time, seeing the enemy retreating, the formation began to be chaotic again, and immediately ordered the two thousand light cavalry that had been pacing in the rear army to divide into two ways and start pursuing.
The sound of horses' hooves shook the battlefield, and the sabers and whistling iron spears were like maggots on tarsal bones, chasing and killing every rebel who left their backs to them. Killing people like mowheat, and swaths of rebels fell on the battlefield.
However, the three-mile road seems to have lived a lifetime for Lu Yi, from the big victory in the morning to the rout in an instant, everything came too quickly and too quickly!
Seeing the smoke and dust rising in the forest, and listening to the screams of the robe behind him being chased and killed by the enemy cavalry, this made Lu Yi angry, and suddenly grabbed the reins, turned his head and shouted with an iron spear: "If you can't survive if you run away, the whole army will obey the order, turn your head and kill me!" Hold them back, reinforcements have arrived! ”
With Lu Yi's shout, the cronies beside him shouted together, but they forcibly choked the idea of fleeing, and turned their heads with difficulty...... The soldiers have been defeated, and the morale of the army is naturally gone, but they can hear it clearly, the reinforcements have arrived!
And when they turned their heads, all they saw were the fierce enemy cavalry and the large groups of men and horses that rolled up the dust in three directions.
At this moment, a burst of shouting and killing suddenly broke out in the dense forest behind, and the well-armored Xiaoya Army showed its fierce fangs for the first time in this era, rushed out of the dense forest, crossed the line of Lu Yi, and pounced on the Han army!