【Chapter 782】 Sweeping Liuhe
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Neck and neck, Gao Ran said suspiciously: "Why is this? The second prince and the senior general both died at the hands of this thief, if we don't kill him, how can we wait for the main bus? ”
"Alas!" Zhang He sighed softly with a solemn expression, looked back at Zhao Yun, who was entangled by the generals, and then turned his head to look at the original battlefield of Loudi, and said in amazement: "At the moment, we don't need to wait for the main bus." Now that the general trend of the allied forces has gone, just now the lord has also led his troops to abandon the camp and flee, at this time, if we don't leave, I'm afraid that I won't want to leave Loudiyuan alive! ”
"Huh?" Gao Ran was shocked when he heard this, and said in disbelief: "Abandoned the camp and fled, and the lord also left, how could this be?" Why did the lord abandon the camp and flee? ”
"Why? Hum! The defeat is decided, if he doesn't run now, then he will become a prisoner of Li Li's subordinates! ”
Zhang He snorted angrily, then shook his head helplessly, and then stretched out his hand to point to the original main battlefield of Loudi, and said with a gloomy expression: "At dawn, Uncle Yuan was caught in the battle and had no time to separate, so he didn't notice the change in the battle situation on the battlefield. But you might as well turn your head now and take a look, on the main battlefield opposite the pit, there are at least more than 200,000 troops still fighting fiercely at this moment, but more than sixty percent of the flags flying high are the battle flags of the Xiliang Army, while the battle flags of the allied forces only account for about three or four percent. From this, although you and I have not seen the situation on the battlefield with our own eyes, we can also roughly estimate the situation of the two armies after a night of fierce fighting and the collapse of the pit from the flags of the two armies. I don't know if Uncle Yuan thinks so? ”
"Well, Junyi has a point." Gao Ran nodded in amazement. He thought deeply and said: "The two of us have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, if we can't even see the fact that we know the strength of both sides by looking at the banner, wouldn't we have lived for so many years in vain?" How dare you call yourself a veteran of the battlefield. And how to lead the army to fight? ”
Zhang He nodded happily, and while riding his horse around the north of the Allied camp with Gao Lan, he looked back at the Loudiyuan battlefield behind him.
"Brother Yuan pays a little attention, and it is not difficult to find that the situation on the battlefield at this moment is not so much that the two armies are still fighting fiercely, but that the soldiers of our allied army are being pursued and killed by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. The entire army of the princes has been completely defeated by the Xiliang army, and tens of thousands of allied soldiers have fled in a hurry. However, because the pit blocked the way of retreat, these soldiers had to flee to the two wings, trying to escape from the battlefield. It's a pity. Our allies already had many infantry troops and few cavalry, but now the retreat route is blocked, and the passage between the two wings is far away and quite narrow, so on. Can the Allied infantry outrun the Xiliang Iron Cavalry? But. Once they can't escape, there are only two ends: one is to become the soul of the sword of the Xiliang Iron Horse; The second is to kneel and beg to surrender, willing to be a prisoner of war of the Xiliang Army. There is no other way. ”
As Zhang He spoke, Gao Ran looked back while riding his horse, and found that what he saw was indeed what Zhang He said. As far as the eye can see, except for the huge pit that stands out. On the original battlefield of Loudi to the west of the pit, as far as the eye can see. Almost all of them are the swift figures of the Xiliang war cavalry, and most of the general flags that are swaying in the wind are also the battle flags of the generals of the Xiliang army. The flags of the princes of the allied forces and the generals of the generals are relatively rare, and the flags of a few people such as Lu Bu, Liu Bei and Zhao can be vaguely seen, while the flags of other generals of the allied forces are nowhere to be found.
"The general flag of the allied generals, maybe it is blocked behind by the dense Xiliang general flag?" After seeing the shape of the battlefield clearly, Gao Ran comforted himself.
After Zhang He finished speaking, Gao Ran asked in surprise: "Listening to the meaning of Junyi's words, doesn't it mean that my dignified princes' allied forces have been defeated?" Such a huge trap is enough to kill all the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, but why does Junyi always grow the morale of others and destroy his own prestige? ”
Zhang He naturally heard Gao Ran's tone of displeasure when he spoke, and clearly knew that Gao Ran was still looking forward to it, relying on the infinite power of the pit killing array, to wipe out the Xiliang war cavalry in one fell swoop, hoping that the princes and allies would finally win, or even a big victory and a complete victory. It's a pity that the beautiful vision in Gao Lan's heart is just wishful thinking and unwilling to face reality.
In fact, at this moment, the results of the one-night battle and the pit killing array were completely exposed to the morning light. But the truth in the sun was so cruel, bloody and ruthless that it was unacceptable to all Allied soldiers.
On the original main battlefield of Loudi. The Allied army successively dispatched as many as 80,000 former army soldiers, including chariot formation, catapult formation, well-fence charging vehicle formation, bow and crossbow formation, giant shield formation and 20,000 infantry army spear formation, but the result was that the former army officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, and more than seventy percent of the former army officers and soldiers had been reduced to flesh and mud ashes under the feet of Xiliang Tie cavalry, while the remaining two or three percent of the soldiers lost their armor and fled, nowhere to be found.
This is only the battle situation of the front army in the allied battle array, and the 240,000 infantry army of the Chinese army, which is the main force in the decisive battle, formed a huge Liuhe battle array, trying to stifle the iron hooves of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry with an overwhelming superiority in troops. However, after the battle began, Yuan Shao temporarily decided to withdraw the 60,000 infantry troops led by Zhang He and Gao Lan to the rear army, which was equivalent to breaking away from the main battlefield and virtually greatly weakening the combat strength of the Chinese army's battle array. And because of the darkness of the night, the princes of the Chinese army did not know Yuan Shao's true intentions in doing this, and thought that he had other plans, so Yuan Shao's move did not attract the attention of Lu Bu, Liu Bei, Cao Cao and others.
As a result, more than 60,000 soldiers and horses under Lü Bu and 20,000 Jizhou cavalry under his command, as well as 50,000 Xuzhou troops under Liu Bei, and thousands of soldiers and horses sent by Cao Cao became the main force of the Xiliang cavalry to resist the Xiliang cavalry head-on, and the total number of soldiers and horses was roughly similar to the number of Xiliang iron cavalry. Since then, the main force of the Allied army, which is less than 150,000 foot cavalry, has confronted the 130,000 Xiliang iron cavalry, and the result is self-evident.
During this period, because the 60,000 or 70,000 Montenegrin troops under Zhang Yan on the left wing defected, Cao Cao pretended to lead his troops to withdraw from the main battlefield under the pretext of Yuan Shao's military order. And Cao Cao's move undoubtedly once again weakened the number and combat effectiveness of the main force of the Chinese army, and trapped the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of Lu Bu and Liu Bei to death.
Under the many drastic changes, after most of the night. That is, at dawn, the main army of the Allied forces was finally defeated by the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and then the whole line collapsed. had to retreat to the rear. However, these defeated Allied soldiers could never have dreamed that when they retreated to the rear, they would be greeted not by reinforcements, but by a huge cavern.
In fact, the defeat on the main battlefield was not enough to pose a mortal threat to the main forces of the Chinese army. Of the 150,000 main troops who fought fiercely all night, less than 50,000 soldiers and horses actually died in the battle. After all, in the midst of a head-to-head fight. Although the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is brave and fierce, the Allied soldiers are not muddy ornaments. In the bloody battle, Lu Bu, Zhao Zhao, Cao Ren and Liu Bei led more than 100,000 allied soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was not weak. Therefore, Xiliang Tieqi did not achieve an overwhelming advantage in the short term.
Therefore. When the Allied forces retreated on the main battlefield, the main corps of the Chinese army, plus the remnants of the previous army, still had more than 100,000 troops. At this time, although the allies were defeated, they had not yet reached the point of breaking their muscles and bones, and they still had the strength to fight; In other words, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses who retreated to the rear army were the most powerful elite divisions among the allied forces.
However, with a loud rumbling sound like the sky falling apart, the main army of the Allied forces retreated from the main battlefield. Together with the Black Mountain Army and Yuan Army who were fighting, they rushed into the pit like a swarm. Then like a dumpling, he threw himself into the pit, went forward and one after another, and rushed to jump in! In addition, behind them, there were more than 100,000 Xiliang iron cavalry chasing and intercepting them, and they were wantonly chasing and killing, so that tens of thousands of Allied soldiers who found that the situation was wrong could not retreat if they wanted to, so that they were pushed and jumped into the pit by the people behind them.
Therefore, the hole and pit that Yuan Shao carefully planned and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to dig can be regarded as a real pit for the Allied soldiers! And it's ?????? The pit is big!
The hole in the ground, which is about four miles long, 500 steps wide, and more than two zhang deep, will be swallowed up by more than 15,000 Yuan soldiers and more than 30,000 Montenegrin troops, as well as more than 10,000 Feiyan light cavalry and more than 2,000 Jinqi guard war horses, as soon as the collapse is triggered. In addition to more than 200 Yuan soldiers such as Gao Lan, Chun Yuqiong, and Gao Gan, there were also more than 1,000 Xiliang warriors, including Li Li, Li Zhi, Zhang Yan and Chen Dao. The two armies together were nearly 70,000 cavalry, and less than 2,000 people actually survived.
And this is just the huge devouring power of the moment when the pit collapses, and the next half an hour is the purgatory time when the pit lore array really shows its might.
The moment the pit collapsed, the main army of more than 100,000 Allied troops who retreated in a hurry could be called rushing all the way, and finally caught up with the hellish feast carefully concocted by Yuan Shao, which came just in time and at the right time. As a result, following the remnants of the Yuan Army, the Black Mountain Army, the Feiyan Light Cavalry and the Jin Yiwei, tens of thousands of Allied soldiers jumped into the pit in ignorance, and then the Xiliang Iron Cavalry behind them pursued and killed, which further intensified the feat of the Allied soldiers jumping into the pit in the dark.
At that moment, the earth-shattering, weeping ghosts and gods' terrible screams, the neighing and wailing of the war horses that rushed straight into the sky, and the continuous sound of spikes piercing the body, and the crushing pit that collapsed like chopping waves; It will be an indelible memory for all who survived.
It wasn't until dawn broke that the pit killing array finally stopped killing, because no one had fallen into the pit anymore. And at this moment, there are not many soldiers standing on the edge of the pit, there are still tens of thousands of people, but whether it is an allied soldier or a Xiliang army, as long as he does not fall immediately, someone will try to pull him up.
It is precisely because of the coming of light that at this moment, a lot of unimaginable strange things have happened. Under the strict order of the commander Li Li, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, who was in control, stopped chasing and killing the Allied soldiers, and the temporary commanders of the Allied forces, Lu Bu and Liu Bei, also ordered the Allied soldiers to stop fighting in time after Li Li issued an armistice order. Immediately, the two armies each occupied a passage to the Allied camp, with the Xiliang army in the north (left flank) and the Allied army in the south (right flank), and then the two armies made every effort to rescue the soldiers who had fallen into the pit but were not dead.
In the rescue operation, Li Li, Lu Bu and Liu Bei, the three commanders, had an unprecedented tacit understanding, and they did not need to discuss with each other at all, and they did not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy. The entire rescue time lasted for half an hour, that is, the period from dawn to sunrise.
Human nature returns to its origin at this moment, and at the beginning of human beings, nature is good??????
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