Chapter 505: Changing Formations and Odds of Victory
"Boom!"
Even when looking at it from a distance in the rear formation, the moment the two armies collided, all that echoed in his ears was the roar that resounded throughout the whole world.
The sound of shouting and killing, the sound of footsteps, the sound of drums and trumpets, the sound of weapons colliding, the screams of slashing and slashing, the sharp sound of sharp blades entering the body and blood splashing, and the screams before death...... Countless sounds turned into this roar.
Without the process of long-range weapons firing, the battle between the two armies, from the very beginning, entered a white-hot stage.
At the last moment of the hand-to-hand encounter, Peng Yu took advantage of the momentum of running wildly, jumped high into the air with his feet, and smashed into the enemy's military formation with the inertia of rushing forward and jumping, like a meteorite falling from the sky.
Facing him was a forest of spears, and it seemed that his actions could only be described as brave and unscrupulous, and being stabbed into a sieve by the spears was the only outcome.
However, if you take your eyes off him and look around him and behind him, no one will think so. The courage of the soldiers, especially the generals who must be the first to enter the battle.
Guo Taijun's vanguard is composed of bandits and outlaws, and the crazy actions of the main general are a major stimulus to these people, and the previous enemy's weakness has stimulated all their ferocity - bandits are creatures, and they are the most bullying and afraid of the hard.
Peng Yu's actions were imitated by the soldiers, and nearly a thousand people adopted such crazy tactics, leaping up and swinging their swords and pounced, making the first wave of Guo Taijun's onslaught exert extraordinary power, and also made the first moment of the battle between the two armies seem extremely tragic.
"Poof! Burst! Burst! ”
The Anyi army walked slowly, resulting in a lack of impact power, but their ranks were kept relatively neat, such as Lin's spear array was far from the airtight level of the Yulin army, but the defense power should not be underestimated.
Leaping warriors. As if committing suicide, he crashed into the spear forest one after another, and his body was stabbed through several transparent holes, blood spurted from his mouth, but the knife in his hand was still waving. Look at the meaning, even if you can't cut people, you have to cut off a few spear shafts to cushion your back.
After all, the training level of the Anyi army was insufficient, and the initial attack was not bad, but the preparation for the second wave of onslaught was obviously insufficient. The first wave of attacks resulted in many spears being stabbed on the body of the same corpse. If it is replaced by the Yulin Army, the soldiers will cooperate very tacitly, throw the corpse out together, and smash it into the enemy position like a catapult attack, blocking the follow-up enemy soldiers. And free the spear.
The White Wave Army was far from reaching such a tacit understanding, and some spearmen wanted to throw it hard; There were also those who were anxious to assassinate the enemy soldiers who rushed in the second wave, and were anxious to draw their spears; Others thought about simply stabbing the corpse like that. Each has its own ideas, each has its own approach, and the officers do not know how to command and coordinate, and everyone is completely unable to form a joint force.
As a result, when the second wave of enemies swooped in. Most of the spears are in an unattackable state.
As a result, nearly twice as many casualties were taken, this time paying the price from the previous attackers. Looking at it from a distance, the neat phalanx of the Anyi army. All of a sudden, it became untidy, like jagged teeth.
"Kill! Kill them! "There were a few exceptions in the first wave of attackers, such as Peng Yu. Relying on his superb martial arts skills and the sharp reactions he had experienced countless times between life and death, Peng Yu twisted his body in the air. Dodging three spears, he parried the other three with his sword. Grabbed the last one with his bare hands and broke into the enemy line safely.
As soon as his feet touched the ground, the war knife in his hand turned into a huge fan, and the Anyi army in this range all retreated with blood, either dead or wounded, and a large area was suddenly vacant around him.
Along this gap, more thugs broke in, followed behind Peng Yu, shouting and fighting, setting off a wave of blood.
The most important thing for long soldiers versus short soldiers is to keep the distance and the integrity of the array. Before the engagement, the Anyi army did a good job, but when the fierce battle broke out, after a moment or two, their battle line was broken through and became shaky.
This situation has raised a lot of concerns.
The cavalry charged much faster than the infantry, but until the two white waves fought fiercely with each other, the other two teams of cavalry were still slowly approaching each other. The commander of the cavalry coincidentally wanted to observe the situation and then decide how to fight later.
Liu Bao, the chief general of the Huns, learned the lessons of the battle of Gaotang, and after learning from the pain, he believed that if that battle was fought by Yuan Shaojun and the Qingzhou army first, the Huns would be able to calmly respond to the battle and achieve the final victory.
There is no regret medicine in this world, and Liu Bao has no way to go back to the past to verify his thoughts. However, as a new Dan Yu with great ambitions and bent on reviving the power of the Xiongnu, he vowed to learn from that battle, avoid all mortal dangers, and lead the Xiongnu on the road to revival.
So, he's going to wait and see.
As early as the fifth year of Zhongping, the Huns had dealt with the Yellow Turban Army, and Liu Bao was familiar with the tactics of this army. This army fights by starting these three axes, and whoever has the upper hand at the beginning will be more likely to achieve the final victory.
The Qingzhou generals over there in Anyi seemed to want to play some tricks, but unfortunately they didn't receive any effect. Now it is Guo Tai who has the upper hand, and Guo Tai has more soldiers and horses, and there are thousands of cavalry that have not been used, no matter how you look at this battle, Guo Tai will win.
Since this is the case, he can rest assured that he can boldly launch an attack and start the first battle of the Xiongnu's resurgence.
Liu Bao raised his whip and pointed forward, shouting an order: "The whole army is attacking!" ”
"Uncle!" Liu Bao saw the odds, and the Xiliang people on the other side were a little panicked, especially after discovering that the Huns began to accelerate. Hu Feng rode his horse and followed Li Dao, shouting anxiously, his face full of fear.
"What's the panic?" Li Wei was quite dissatisfied with his nephew's lack of interest, and scolded loudly: "This battle has just begun, those Hulu Huns know a fart, and they didn't understand the current situation at all, so they rushed over with self-righteousness, first give them a head-on blow, and then after the situation changes again, they will be honest!" ”
"Uncle, Bai Bo is in command of the famous Qingzhou general Xu Shu, but the soldiers are still the original, even after some training, the time is too short, and it is not much different from the original, and the array was pierced at once. The Chinese army has been pressed back step by step, and there is still ...... in this battle."
Seeing that Li Wei's face was not good, he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.
No matter how you look at it, there is no suspense in this battle.
If it was the Qingzhou Army that fell behind, or even the Xiliang infantry under the command of Uncle Guo, it would be difficult to say what would happen later, but Bai Bo's soldiers were just a group of rabble, could they still change their formations and fight back?
Reinforcements? Where are there any reinforcements, the foundation that the Anyi army can fight is here. All that remained were the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled. If the Qingzhou army comes, it may be possible to turn the situation around, but if the Qingzhou army wants to come to the aid in a big way, the fastest way is to go to Hanoi. Zhang Yang wasted again. It's impossible to be pushed down by Wang Yu without even resisting, right?
What else can be said about this?
"Idiot! Can't you see that? Xu Shu was not in front of the battle, but a recruit who had been trained for a while. This person is famous in the Central Plains, it is impossible for him to be an idiot, he will think that the recruits can fight against Guo Taijun who has been fighting for many years and crisscrossing the east of the river with casual training, right? Li Wei shook his head, feeling that his nephew was completely hopeless. At least strategically, yes.
If Hu Feng was the only one, he would definitely wave his hand to let the other party dodge aside, but listening to the conversation between him and Hu Feng on the side, he showed a thoughtful look. There are also several nephews such as sons Li Shi and Li Jin. He thought about it for a while, and felt that it would be better to take this opportunity to order the sons and nephews.
This year, you still have to rely on your own relatives. Baume & Mercier is useless. After Yuan Shao is finished, he will support his endgame. Isn't that his son-in-law? Cao Cao of Yanzhou also relied on his relatives to get into the mix.
"Ah......" looked at his uncle, and then looked at the infantry formation that was fighting fiercely in the distance, Hu Feng looked dazed.
Li Wei explained: "Bai Bo is a rabble, yes, Xu Shu can't do anything to train the Bai Bo army into a strong army like the Qingzhou Army in just over a month." However, if he knew Guo Tai's tactics in advance and trained them in a targeted manner, he could still achieve some results......
"What effect?"
"Think about it carefully, whose troops can the Anyi Army fight the most? And who is the one who is commanding the spear formation in front now? When it comes to this, if you still don't understand, if you go out in the future, don't tell anyone that it's your uncle! ”
At the end of the sentence, Li Dao jumped on his horse and raised his whip, waved his knife and pointed at the surging Hun cavalry, and shouted: "Give them some color to see, hurt them, and let these defeated generals know who is the soft persimmon!" ”
"Oh!" The Xiliang Iron Cavalry accelerated suddenly, and the two cavalry were like two huge arrows, slamming into each other.
Cavalry hedging, the battle is carried out at extremely high speed, which is more dangerous and exciting than infantry combat. Hu Feng, who has always been brave and ruthless, has always been happy to do this, but today he is a little absent-minded.
After casually blocking the attack of the enemy horseman, he did not return the color with a powerful slash, but kept turning his head to the side to look at something. It is very dangerous to wander on the battlefield, if it weren't for the fact that there were many personal guards around him, thinking about pinching soft persimmons, but kicking the iron plate, the Huns were also a little caught off guard, maybe he would have hung up a long time ago.
Li Shi, Li Jin and others are similar, they all look like they don't belong.
In this regard, Li Dao, who has always been strict with his sons and nephews, did not get angry, but instead commanded the iron cavalry to change the formation and protect the sons and nephews in the center of the formation, so that they could safely look at the battle formation in the distance.
"It's changed, it's really changed, it's a hook array!" Li Jin was the first to make a discovery and shout.
Immediately, as if he had discovered a new continent, Li Shi shouted loudly: "This is a lure to the enemy!" It's a temptation! The Chinese army retreated, and the physical strength of Guo Taijun's soldiers was almost exhausted, and the two wings were about to launch a counterattack...... It has already begun, the left wing is Li Le, and the right wing is Hu Cai...... Hey, no, how can Bai Bo have a general surnamed Guan? ”
"No matter who it is, it's so powerful...... Hu Feng's brain is not good, but his martial arts are very good, otherwise Li Dao would not have always taken him with him to teach him by word and deed. In the past, he felt that no one in the Yellow Turban Army should be his opponent, but at this moment, when he saw the fierce general who led the army at the forefront of the right flank after the White Polish Army changed formation, he wavered.
The man was holding a big knife, his head was wrapped in a yellow scarf, and the knife was wide open and closed, and no opponent could block his two or three knives.
Although Li Le on the other side looked a little overshadowed, the offensive on the left flank was no worse than that on the right flank, and the Chinese army retreated, and the two flanks marched forward. The original phalanx staggered each other like a Rubik's cube, slowly reformed, and finally presented to the eyes of the spectators, a formation change tactic that was not perfect, but was successfully achieved.
"Guo is too bad, his vanguard and main force are separated!"
"Anyi Army...... It's not going to just win, is it? ”
"It's not even close. There are only 5,000 soldiers who have been separated, but the Anyi army may not have time to encircle and annihilate this force, right? ”
"Don't forget, Mrs. Guo still has 7,000 cavalry unused!"
"That's true, it's too early for the Anyi army to win! Okay, don't worry about these for now, take advantage of the loosening of the Huns' popularity, give them a heavy one first, and wait for the situation! ”
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"Whew!" Putting down the order flag, Xu Shu wiped a cold sweat.
The change of formation that shocked the Xiliang generals seemed easy, but in fact, it cost him a lot of effort. Even if it is Wang Yu, it is impossible for a group of rabble, casually organized into an army, and then invincible.
In the first few battles of Wang Yu's army, his use of the army was mainly to take advantage of the situation. It wasn't until he infiltrated Luoyang himself, after Yu Ban had been training in Luyang for several months, that the troops under his command were really worthy of a battle. However, it was an insurmountable mountain like Xu Rong that he encountered, and in the end he used unconventional means to win.
Xu Shu brought several assistants from Hedong, some were good at touching people's hearts, some were good at jungle ambushes, some were good at capturing the flag, Ma Zhong was the most versatile one, but he didn't know anything about military training. Xu Shu himself doesn't have much experience in military training, after all, he has too little military experience, and he doesn't read many military books.
To be able to command the White Wave Army to the current level, it is almost the limit. It's just that victory is still far away, and although there are chances of victory, it is not something that will come by itself if you do nothing.
"Pass my general order, order the two generals Li and Hu not to be in a hurry to completely cut off the connection between the front and rear armies of Guo Taijun, and maintain the rhythm; General Guan ordered General Guan to strike deep into the enemy's array, find and kill Peng Yu as soon as possible, and destroy the enemy's Xianrui command system; General Han was ordered to maintain the array, and General Yang was ordered to gather the rout as soon as possible, and extend the array to the east, establishing a new defensive line, and preparing to defend against Guo Tai's cavalry charge. ”
After issuing a large series of orders in one breath, Xu Shu took a breath, and finally added: "Command the whole army, in this battle, our army will win, as long as you obey the order, you can win the final victory!" ”