305 large dogfight
Zhao Yun and Xu Chu, who were located on the east and west sides of Xiancheng, as soon as they saw the flags from the city tower, they immediately led the iron chain chain horse formation to rush out, although the movement was slow, but relying on the steel-like defense, there was no fear at all, and the arrows shot were blocked outside, but the knight on horseback was unscathed.
Soon, the chain of horses rushed into the camp of the Yuan army, and the knights on horseback waved their maces, killing the enemy unscrupulously, and everywhere they went, corpses were everywhere.
At the same time, Zhang Liao, Gan Ning, and Lü Meng respectively led light cavalry and infantry out of the city, Zhang Liao and Gan Ning led the light cavalry soldiers to divide into two routes, outflanking from the east and west, and Lü Meng led the infantry to support Gao Shun and make up for the lack of archers.
In addition, Zhang Yan even ordered Bao Xun to lead a large army to support, although these militias are inexperienced, they can still carry out long-range strikes, and they can also take this opportunity to train them, otherwise, how can they evolve into regular armies in the future?
In the territory under Zhang Yan's jurisdiction, the militia system has been fully implemented, and almost all the people are soldiers. Young and middle-aged people were soldiers in wartime, farmers in their leisure time, and when they needed to build, they were workers on the front line, which was such a huge system that supported Zhang Yan's rear.
According to Chen Qun's incomplete statistics, the militia in Zhang Yan's territory is as high as more than 300,000, that is to say, in addition to the 130,000 regular army, there are still more than 300,000 young and middle-aged people. Even if the rear is empty and there is no regular army, as long as there is a militia, it can still defend the country.
After the order was issued, Bao Xun followed Zhang Yan's instructions and led 50,000 militia to quickly support Xiancheng. Mighty. The momentum is huge.
Thereupon. The big melee officially began, and the duel between the main forces of the two armies kicked off at this moment.
With Xiancheng as the central point, within a radius of 15 miles, nearly 200,000 people fought in this area.
"Let Xiahou Yuan, Cao Hong and others lead the army to attack!" Yuan Shao was in charge of the Chinese army, and when he saw that the attack of the front army was blocked, and Zhang Yan continued to increase his troops, he couldn't bear it. Immediately said to the herald beside him.
The herald immediately rode his horse and ran to the rear army, passing Yuan Shao's orders to Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong.
Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong glanced at each other, did not say a word, and immediately led their troops to slowly rush forward.
At this moment, Xiancheng and Yuan's army camp were crowded with people, crowds of people, and arrows were even more dense like raindrops, and after a fierce confrontation between the soldiers of the two armies, the number of dead people also rose sharply.
Especially the soldiers of the Yuan army, their vanguard generals Zhang He and Gao Ran were captured. The attack was blocked, and Zhang Yanjun's chain of iron chain horses was rampant in Yuan's camp again. As soon as the soldiers of the Yuan army saw the iron chain horse formation, they were terrified, and this group of invulnerable cavalry was simply their nightmare.
In addition, more than half of the archers who shot at Gao Shun and Lu Meng were also killed and wounded, and Gao Shun and Lu Meng had shield soldiers to cover, although the number was small, but all of them had superb archery skills and accurate archery, and it was not a problem to have a long-term confrontation with Yuan Shaojun's soldiers.
Zhao Yun and Xu Chu led the chain of iron horse formations into the enemy camp, completely disrupting the deployment of the enemy, in addition, Zhang Liao and Gan Ning each led the light cavalry to detour back to the two wings of the enemy, like two sharp knives, directly inserted into the enemy's ribs, and those archers who were shooting against Gao Shun and Lu Meng were in chaos because of Zhao Yun and Xu Chu's disturbance.
At this time, Gao Shun and Lü Mengcai respectively led the infantry to kill in two ways, preparing to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.
The battle is very fierce, on the huge battlefield, although the Yuan army has no general command, but the soldiers are fighting to the death, the general of the Yuan army is commanding a group of spearmen, specifically attacking the mount of the iron chain horse, with the spear constantly stabbing the body of the war horse, although the war horse is wrapped in a layer of vest, but the rest of the parts are exposed, the spearmen played a role at this moment, one after another, hunched over, holding the spear in both hands, specifically to the belly of the war horse.
Although the ironclad cavalry wielded a mace for defense, after all, there were too many enemy troops, plus the command was well-directed, and the soldiers under them were well-trained, and in just a moment's effort, more than 100 war horses were stabbed to death, and the knights on the back of the war horses, once they lost their horses, it was like losing their legs, and the heavy armor made the knights inconvenient, even if they killed the enemy, they were quite difficult.
Xu Chu also fell off the horse, as soon as he landed, he immediately took off the helmet on his head, took off the armor on his body, almost all the heavy armament, only wore a piece of chain mail, brandished a steel knife, like a tiger pounced, rushed into the enemy camp, left knife, right knife, one knife, the next knife, the force of the slash is enough to make the enemy sword fatal, almost one knife to kill.
After a while, Xu Chu's whole body was already dyed red with blood, and the whole person was like a bloody man, and with his own strength, he was stunned to kill a place among the ten thousand armies.
The rest of the ironclad knights who fell off their horses saw Xu Chu like this, and they also took off their battle armor one after another, and they were lightly armed, without restraints, and looked lighter, waving their knives and slashing and killing indiscriminately, following closely behind Xu Chu.
However, after removing the battle armor, they also lost the same defensive power, and not all of them were Xu Chu, so more than a dozen knights were injured to varying degrees, and some were even killed directly.
However, these people were lightly injured and could not get out of the line of fire, and they fought hard to kill the enemy with Xu Chu, relying on their personal bravery, and they were stunned to kill the spear formation, and also let Yuan Jun know that their strength did not just rely on armor, but personal martial arts.
After a while, the subordinates who led the move couldn't resist, Xu Chu led a hundred soldiers to fight bravely, and the iron chain horse formation was still around him, with countless casualties.
Xu Chu was indomitable, he raised his knife and slashed, killing people was like chopping melons and vegetables.
Soon, Xu Chu approached the draw, he shouted, raised the knife and slashed at the pull, the puller consciously couldn't resist Xu Chu, turned around and left, his body was like a loach, shuttling in the crowd, only a moment of effort, and then disappeared without a trace.
"Damn, you're a loach and running so fast?" Xu Chu failed to kill the move, and couldn't help but curse secretly.
At the same time, the Iron Cable Horse Formation led by Zhao Yun showed extremely strong combat effectiveness, and under the command of Zhao Yun, the Iron Cable Chain Horse Formation clashed back and forth in the Yuan army's camp, rampage, and was unimpeded.
The light cavalry led by Zhang Liao and Gan Ning also achieved fruitful results, and the infantry led by Gao Shun and Lü Meng also joined the battle circle and launched a new round of fierce battles with the soldiers of the Yuan army.
After about a stick of incense, Bao Xun led 50,000 militiamen to arrive, and the militiamen armed with bows and crossbows advanced in formation, carrying out long-range strikes on the enemy and fighting with the main force.
Zhang Yan, who was standing on the city tower and watching, was also excited when he saw such a scene. But at this moment, he saw Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong leading the army to kill from behind, but because the battlefield was crowded with people, it could no longer accommodate the newcomers, so he had no choice but to stay on the side of the trench and wait quietly for the battle.
It was already close to noon, and the battle that lasted for more than an hour had not yet been decided, and it was also strange to say that the soldiers of the Yuan army were still fighting hard under the command of no one, what was the reason?
But no matter what, Zhang Yan can't take it lightly, he must stay calm, the battlefield is changing rapidly, anything can happen, and you can never guess what the ending will be until a moment.
Yuan Shao, who was looking at the battle situation like Zhang Yan, stood on the watchtower in the camp, overlooking the entire battlefield from a high altitude, but saw the black torrent and the orange-red torrent colliding fiercely together, and there was a bloody battle between the trench and the deep pit, and people kept falling down, and someone kept making up for it, and the two armies started a tug-of-war, and on the ground between them, there was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
Soon, the chain of iron horses lost its effect, and the crowded crowd and corpses were everywhere on the ground, making it extremely inconvenient for the horses to move.
Therefore, Zhao Yun ordered the chain of horses to withdraw from the battle, and he took this cavalry team to slowly detour from the flanks, preparing to bypass Yuan Shao's ravine defense line, raid Yuan Shao's Chinese army camp, and capture Yuan Shao in one fell swoop.
However, as soon as Zhao Yun withdrew from the battle, billowing smoke and dust came from the northwest direction of Yuan Shaojun, and the sand and dust raised covered the sky and the sun, making it difficult to see whether the people who came were friends or enemies.
Zhang Yan, who was on the city tower, noticed this large army rolling in from the northwest, he frowned, thinking that it was Yuan Shao's reinforcements, and his face became gloomy.
Not only Zhang Yan, but even Yuan Shao also noticed this sudden army, but in Yuan Shao's opinion, this army is likely to be his reinforcement. Because, Yuan Shao has already sent people to Puyang to transfer troops, preparing to let the trial match arrive with an army of 20,000, according to the direction of this army, it seems to be the direction of Puyang.
However, both Zhang Yan and Yuan Shao guessed wrong, and the army that came was not Yuan Shao's reinforcements, but Zhang Yan's reinforcements.
The first to bear the brunt were two knights in silver armor and silver helmets, one of them was armed with a silver spear and the other with a silver axe, it was Tai Shici and Xu Huang, who were ranked among the Five Tiger Generals under Zhang Yan's account.
Tai Shi Ci and Xu Huang took the lead, taking the lead, and the cavalry followed behind them, they were extremely fast, and Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong, who were stationed in the rear army of the Yuan army, were transferred to the front line by Yuan Shao, and now there are very few defenders in the rear army, Tai Shi Ci and Xu Huang led the army to kill, these soldiers couldn't resist at all, and they didn't know how many soldiers and horses Tai Shi Ci and Xu Huang led to come.
Yuan Shao immediately ordered Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong to retreat and go forward to resist Tai Shici and Xu Huang. As soon as Xiahou Yuan and Cao Hong retreated, the soldiers fighting on the front line mistakenly thought that Yuan Shao had ordered the retreat, and their morale immediately dropped, and they retreated one after another...... (To be continued......)