Chapter 0991 - Self-Rebellion
In early October of the sixth year of Jian'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Northern Xinjiang Army reached the Yegong Niu River and went up along the river, approaching the Tianjun Prairie. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Mihong, the king of Qiang, gathered a total of 70,000 troops of the Qiang people from all tribes and faced them head-on.
On the day of the decisive battle, the sky was gray, the north wind was roaring, the snow was falling, and the battlefield was white.
Zhang Fei and Ji Ling personally led an army of 10,000 at the front, Yu Ban led the rest of the Third Infantry Army in the center, and the heavy cavalry of the Pro-Guard Army was in the rear. Ma Chao and Zhang Liao led the cavalry on the left and right flanks. Sixty-eight thousand soldiers stood in the wind and snow, quietly waiting for the moment of battle.
The Qiang people lined up with geese, ready to go.
The battlefield was very silent, and the silence was suffocating.
The battle flags of both sides danced wildly in the wind and snow, like fierce wolves on the snowfield, and let out a thrilling roar.
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Li Yi raised the horsewhip, gently patted the snowflakes on his long hair, and then looked up at the tall Da Xu, slowly squinting his eyes.
The Han battle flag danced majestically in mid-air, like a dragon about to take off, raising its head and roaring.
Li Yan gasped nervously, and the hot gas that erupted from his mouth and nose turned into a cloud of white mist. The long-awaited war is about to begin, and the exciting moment is coming. Dahan ...... The Great Han is invincible......
Li Lin turned his head to look at his brother, a coquettish smile suddenly appeared on his red face, and said, "Big brother, why are you so nervous?" It's not the first time I've been on the battlefield. ”
Li Yan glared at Li Lin solemnly, and said like a little adult: "I want to lead the army to rush and kill, wait a minute, don't follow behind me, hinder me from killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions." ”
Li Lin was amused by his serious appearance, hurriedly kicked the horse's belly, retreated to Yue Lei's side, and said with a smile: "Okay, listen to you, I'll follow Brother Lei, and I won't delay you to kill the enemy." ”
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Li Yi waved his hand.
"Knock knock knock ......" The war drums of a hundred faces beat at the same time, and the earth was shaken in an instant.
"Woo ......"
The Qiang people dispatched, and the leader of the prison sister Qiang, the prison fox, rushed out of the main formation with a large army like an arrow from the string, roaring towards the left flank of the battlefield.
Thousands of horses galloped, and suddenly stirred up snowflakes in the sky, which was magnificent.
Zhang Liao sneered.
The Qiang wanted to attack the left flank of the Northern Xinjiang Army and tear a passage between the cavalry and infantry of the Northern Xinjiang Army in order to break the Northern Army formation.
Although this method is good, the Qiang people obviously underestimated the strength of the Northern Xinjiang Army. They thought that after the Northern Frontier Army arrived in the West Sea, it was not adaptable to the water and soil, and its combat effectiveness was not as good as before.
Zhang Liao's halberd rose from the ground, brought up a canopy of snow to the sky, and said coldly: "Order all departments, fight and retreat, bring in the enemy, bring in ......"
Murong Han and Hua Xiong each led their men and horses, separated from the left and right, and let the Qiang people kill in unimpeded.
As soon as the Qiang people were killed to the end, they collided head-on with Yu Ban, Sima Ju and others who were waiting for the battle, and the two sides fought bloodily.
Tens of thousands of horses and horses fought together, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
The horn sounded again, and the leader of the first Lingqiang led the army to rush out of the main formation, and once again killed the left flank of the Northern Frontier Army.
Zhang Liao was a little surprised. The Qiang people identified the left flank, as if they had to break through from this side. He hurriedly ordered Murong Han to turn around and meet the battle, blocking the enemy's follow-up attacking army.
Half of the Northern Xinjiang Army turned around, allowing the Qiang people in the formation to quickly break through the Northern Frontier cavalry resistance and kill the infantry army in the center.
Yu Ban, Sima Ju and others couldn't hold it back for a long time, and when they saw the Qiang people roaring, they gave orders again and again, and the overseers attacked wildly.
There was chaos on the battlefield on the left flank.
Li Yi frowned slightly, turned to Xu Shu and said: "Command Yide, the front army will dismantle the formation, let Ji Ling lead his troops to cut horizontally into the battlefield on the left flank, block the retreat of the Qiang people, and surround the Qiang people." ”
Xu Shu was taken aback, and asked puzzledly: "Lord, the front army dismantled the formation, didn't the Qiang people just attack?" ”
"Tell Ma Chao to pay attention to protecting the front army, stop the frontal attack of the Qiang people, and wait for the opportunity to set a trap on the right flank battlefield, induce the main force of the Qiang people to attack my right flank, and introduce all the Qiang people into the battlefield." Li Yi waved his hand vigorously and said categorically, "Quick, give the order......"
Xu Shu was dumbfounded.
Now the left flank is under attack from two groups of enemy troops. Murong Han's army was caught in the middle by the enemy, and although they blocked the second group of enemy troops, because they failed to cooperate with Zhang Liao and Hua Xiong to surround the first group of enemy troops, the first group of enemy troops successfully broke through Hua Xiong's resistance and stormed the infantry army in the middle of the middle road. This move caught the Northern Frontier Army off guard, and the solid position in the middle began to shake immediately.
At this time, if the front army is allowed to dismantle the formation and fully cooperate with Murong Han to surround the second group of attacking enemy troops, then the entire middle lane formation will be gone, and the three battlefields on the left, middle and right will immediately become a mess, and the battle situation will soon get out of control. This is tantamount to giving up the initiative on the battlefield.
And this is also the purpose of the Qiang people's continuous attacks on the left flank of the army, they want to break through the middle lane, cause chaos on the battlefield, and then launch a fatal blow.
Xu Shu still wanted to dissuade him, but when he saw Li Yi staring at him murderously, he didn't dare to say anything more, and hurriedly ordered to go.
"Tell Wenyuan again, let the Qiang people attack the Chinese army, let the Chinese army drag the Qiang people in the middle, and then order Hua Xiong's army to outflank the Qiang people from the left and right flanks and surround this Qiang cavalry."
"Order Pound to approach the battlefield in the middle and make a gesture of rescuing the Chinese army."
The herald didn't say a word, but rode away.
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The drums of war were like thunder, the flags were flying, the armies on the battlefield were moving rapidly, and the situation of the battle soon changed dramatically.
The front army of the Northern Frontier Army suddenly dismantled, and Ji Ling commanded the army to rush to the left flank battlefield, blocking the retreat of the scattered army.
At this moment, Ling Chao was commanding the army of Qiang Cai and Murong Han to fight to the death, and did his best to help the army of the prison fox attack the middle of the Northern Xinjiang Army, but he did not expect the Northern Xinjiang Army to destroy its own battle formation.
In front of the Zero Gang was Murong Han's cavalry, and behind was Ji Ling's army of foot soldiers, and he and the five thousand Qiang cavalry quickly fell into the encirclement.
At the same time, the Xianlingqiang cavalry of the prison fox became more and more courageous, they tore open the front of the Chinese army in the northern frontier, and frantically attacked, and the Chinese army seemed to be unable to resist, and retreated step by step on the snow covered with corpses.
But the Qiang ignored Hua Xiong's cavalry, and Hua Xiong divided his 6,000 men and horses into two parts, one part of which was stubbornly pestering them, and the other part was quietly inserted from their left and right flanks, like two sharp war knives, one left and one right, into their waist ribs, holding them together.
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The rainbow roared in the sky.
In this part of the West Sea, no one is the opponent of the Qiang people, even the invincible Li Yi fell into a desperate situation of defeat in a short period of time.
The middle of the Northern Xinjiang Army collapsed, and under the fierce attack of the Qiang people, the left flank of the Northern Xinjiang Army could not support it, so it had to draw a large army from the middle to support, so that the middle of the Northern Xinjiang Army, which was the strongest in attack and defense, became vulnerable.
Mi Hong immediately ordered the main force of the army to launch an attack from the front and completely destroy the middle of the Northern Xinjiang Army.
At this time, the tide of the battle changed again.
The cavalry on the right flank of the Northern Frontier Army moved, and while some of the cavalry had already entered the frontal battlefield in the middle, another part of the main cavalry also began to move to the middle battlefield.
Obviously, the prison fox trapped in the battle was not only not surrounded, but played a huge role, posing a mortal threat to the Northern Xinjiang Army, forcing Li Yi to send reinforcements again to rescue.
But this time, Li Yi made an extremely inferior mistake, in order to save the battlefield on the left flank, he had already self-destructed the solid position in the center, and now he even wanted to self-destruct the protective position on the right flank. Once the main force of the cavalry on the right flank enters the middle or left flank battlefield, what will he do to protect the safety of the flank of the army?
Li Yi was knocked down by the spell of the West Sea, he had become unconscious, and he was doomed.
Mi Hong trembled with excitement, raised her knife and roared: "Kill, kill, attack the enemy's right flank, kill Li Yi......"
Mi Hong rushed to the right flank of the Northern Frontier Army with 40,000 Qiang cavalry, and he even threw all the reserve troops into it.
This is a big battle without suspense, and the defeat of the Northern Xinjiang Army is imminent.
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Looking at the Qiang riders roaring like the tide in front of him, and looking at the huge snow and mist rising into the sky, Li Yi roared loudly: "Beat the drum, beat the drum...... Fight to the death, fight to the death......"
All the Qiang cavalry entered the battlefield, Li Yi's goal was achieved, he wanted to annihilate the Qiang cavalry, he wanted to use the 68,000 army in his hand to annihilate the Qiang cavalry.
No matter what the cost, as long as these Qiang people can be killed, Xijiang can get at least fifteen years of recuperation. With these fifteen years, the Han Dynasty had enough strength to forge Western Xinjiang into a strong fortress.
Yu Poison led an army of 8,000 infantry to kill from the rear.
Han De commanded the army to attack the Qiang cavalry from the flank of the battlefield on the middle road.
Ma Chao and Ma Dai also led the army to kill.
Zhang Fei followed the cavalry with 5,000 infantry, cut into the battlefield horizontally, and intercepted the retreat of the Qiang people.
Mi Hong was not afraid, he had 40,000 cavalry, he had enough strength, enough time to break through the fragile encirclement of the Northern Frontier Army.
The two sides fell into a battle to the death, and flesh and blood flew everywhere.
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On the snowfield within a radius of several miles, more than 100,000 armies on both sides were entangled. Arrows roared in the wind and snow, stumps and severed arms wept in the air, blood stained the white earth, and the sound of killing terrified the beautiful West Sea.
The Northern Xinjiang Army was fighting hard, fighting to the death in three encirclements.
Murong Han and Ji Ling's 10,000 cavalry army surrounded the 5,000 Qiang cavalry of the Zero Chaos.
The 20,000-foot cavalry army of Zhang Liao, Hua Xiong, Yu Ban, and Sima Ju surrounded the 10,000 Qiang cavalry of the prison fox.
The 32,000-foot cavalry army of Ma Chao, Zhang Fei, Li Cunxiao, Gao Chong and others trapped Mihong's 40,000 Qiang cavalry.
In these three battlefields, the key to determining the outcome of this battle is whether Murong Han and Ji Ling's armies can completely annihilate the scattered Qiang cavalry in the shortest possible time.
Dian Wei urged the horse to run to Li Yi's side and shouted loudly: "Lord, let me go and support Murong Han, solve one first, and then you can control the overall situation." ”
Li Yi shook his head and said: "Give hope to the Qiang people, give them hope to turn defeat into victory, so that they will not break through and will always stay on the battlefield to fight." The more the Qiang die, the more likely they are to be wiped out. ”
"But, our people......" Dian Wei gritted his teeth in pain, "Lord, please, how many of us can be left if we continue to fight like this?" ”
"Even if the whole army is wiped out, it will not hesitate." Li Yi looked resolute and categorical.