Chapter 121: Brave Battle
In the past, Huaidong attacked Mingzhou Mansion, Yongjia, Taizhou Mansion, Huiji Mansion, and Mindong, mostly for the attack and defense of the city between the mountains, and the offensive launched by the Huaidong Army was all in order, not rushing, not retreating, and the rapid march was also spread out within a safe range, and it would become quite cautious before engaging the enemy.
In the early years of King Qinnan of Yannan and the Huaisi War in the early stage, the characteristics of the rapid movement of the Huaidong Army in the plain area were not well understood by the generals of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army.
Like Zheng Mingjing, over the years, Zhou Puduo has served as a guard by Lin Lian's side, and outsiders lack enough understanding of his temperament, how many people know the tactics of running into the mountains like a tiger and a leopard?
Zheng Mingjing is also a brave general, he can take the lead, and only then did he personally go to Hetang to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, who would have thought that almost without warning, a large force of cavalry of the Huaidong Army would collide with him?
Zhou Pu recognized that there was a big fish in front of him, so he didn't care that his status in Huaidong was not a big fish for the Zhejiang-Fujian army, and led his troops to rush forward, but instead let Zhao Bao and other generals lead most of the cavalry to follow slowly.
In broad daylight, the field of vision is also wide, and Zheng Mingjing wanted to change his clothes and armor and run away separately, so he could only keep separating the dead soldiers to intercept.
The enemy divided his troops to intercept them, and Zhou Pu also divided his troops, enveloping the enemy with three to four times the strength of his troops.
Zhou Pu just stared at the Zhejiang-Fujian general who gave the enemy cavalry to protect Beiben, and bit it.
Zheng Mingjing's cavalry who went to Hetang to reconnoiter were all personal guards, and the personal guards were cronies and confidants, but guarding the safety of the main general was their duty that they had to repeat.
Even in the Huaidong Army, there is an iron law of "the Lord will die, and those who have no merits and no injuries will be beheaded".
The soldiers and horses intercepted by the Zhejiang-Fujian army had the will to protect the lord to the death, but they were at an absolute disadvantage in terms of troops.
The cavalry led by Zhou Pu was originally the elite of the guards around Lin Lian, and they were all good at riding and archery and swordsmanship. Although he went south with the army this time, he never had the opportunity to participate in the battle, and like Zhou Pu, he was panicked up and down, wanting to vent in a hearty battle.
In these years, some people are afraid of death, some people are thirsty for killing, and the Huaidong cavalry definitely belongs to the latter, and the murderous spirit is coming to meet the enemy, and the waving war knife seems to split the air, Huo Huo rattles, and the knife flashes blood.
From Hetang to Fangjiawa, but more than ten miles, the enemy and us fought into several groups, in the sword light and blood shadow, there were constantly people with heads separated, falling horses to the ground, falling on the frozen winter land, sonorous sound.
With an absolute large number of troops, with slight casualties, the Huaidong cavalry battalion slashed and killed the Zhejiang-Fujian cavalry who were eager to protect the main body and took the initiative to break off, and only a few people broke through and escaped, and it was too late to chase for a while.
The wounded were wrapped up and gathered together to take care of the seriously injured, while the rest of the men and horses continued to beat their horses and rushed forward to join Zhou Pu; Zhao Bao and other generals led the main force of the cavalry battalion to follow behind, to prevent Zhou Pu from being ambushed in front, and to be ready to rush to the rescue at any time.
Fangjiawa is a shallow lake in the upper reaches of the Shahe River, the depression is a depression, the water accumulates into a lake when it rains, and only a small pond is left in Fangjiawa after winter. The water from the upper reaches has been cut off, and the valley is exposed with white rocks, and the water surface is only two or three paces wide downstream, shining and sparkling, and flows out of the pond to the north; The longitudinal horse stepped on the river ice, but it was not too shin.
The lake beach that has been exposed after drying up, and a large area of lodging reed grass, are embedded in the low mountains, like a brown velvet blanket, and the whole Fangjiawa is like a shallow pot with a circumference of several miles.
When Zheng Mingjing fled to Fangjiawa, there were more than 20 cavalry guards left around him; At this time, after sunrise, the two thousand foot soldiers who set out from the Yaojiachong camp and went south along the west bank of the Shahe River also happened to arrive, and they were walking to the bottom of the pot in Fangjiawa, coming from the upstream along the river bank, and the more than 2,000 foot soldiers were divided into four columns, stretching out for a long time.
Even when he reached the south of Fangjiawa, he encountered the outpost sent by the 2,000 foot soldiers, and he could not escape back to warn the 2,000 foot soldiers in advance - when the 2,000 foot soldiers heard the police whistle blowing while the sentry cavalry and the horses were galloping wildly, Zhou Pu had already led 300 horsemen to gallop to a low ridge in the south of Jiawa.
Zheng Ming galloped into the infantry array, and there was no joy in his heart to be saved and rendezvous.
The enemy will dare to fight so much, if they rush forward without the slightest hesitation, they will not even have time to change formation. The foot soldiers collided with a large group of cavalry on the march, which can only be described as a disaster.
Zheng Mingjing hated so much that he stabbed the horse with a scabbard, the horse neighed in pain, the front hooves did not rise and kicked twice in the air, and his body suddenly fell - Zheng Mingjing jumped away in time, watching the war horse that had followed him for several years fall to the ground and foam at the mouth, feeling uncomfortable.
In the past few months, Zheng Mingjing has been a soldier many times, leading his troops to charge into battle, this famous horse has also been injured many times, leaving a dark disease, this way to gallop, but he can't support it and dies on the ground.
Zheng Mingjing had an ominous omen in his heart, he stepped over a war horse let out by the lower people, did not fight the horse and then fled - it was too late to be afraid to leave, ran for more than ten miles, stepped off the war horse became more and more tired, and the foot soldiers here were marching in the queue, and it was difficult to stop the pursuers from sparing from the flanks - Zheng Mingjing held the reins and shouted loudly, asking the three-member battalion general to turn around immediately and command the soldiers to run to the left wing of the mountain.
There was no time to gather more than 2,000 people into formation, and the hill on the left flank was separated by a valley full of rocks and had dried up, which somewhat hindered the cavalry catching up.
The only way to find a point close to the end of the flank can you close the formation as quickly as possible, and at least protect the soft flank of the left flank from the frontal charge of the enemy cavalry.
Zhou Pu straddled the horse, carried the reins, and took in the view of Fangjiawa, which was only six or seven hundred steps away from the two thousand paces of the Zhejiang and Fujian army.
Watching the big fish that had been chased for more than ten miles enter the infantry formation, Zhou Pu was full of blood and blood, not a pity, not a pity, but a murderous exuberance.
Zhou Pu's eyes were about to burst out, he knew that he had led the cavalry on a rampage all the way, at least the peripheral deployment of the left wing of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army had been completely disrupted.
There were about 2,000 foot soldiers of the Zhejiang-Fujian army in front of them, and even if they were ambushes, they didn't have time to get to the ambush position they should have.
The foot soldiers can resist the cavalry charge head-on, in addition to the favorable terrain, they can also rely on a tight formation.
With more than 2,000 scattered foot soldiers, and they were in a low terrain, how could Zhou Pu let go of this opportunity.
Zhou Pu drew his knife and compared the surrounding terrain, and ordered one after another: "Wei Xu, Chen Daozi, you take people to the ridge on the left first; Ma Po Monkey, you take people directly to the east, I will count two hundred for you, as soon as the time comes, they will rush down together, these two thousand people do not take down, your eggs will be cut off and Lao Tzu will drink! ”
The generals of the cavalry battalion are not at all worried that there will be tripping ropes and trapping pits and other hands and feet below, the enemy soldiers are so chaotic, it is by no means a camouflage, even if there are tripping ropes and trapping pits, how many of them can be entangled, the enemy soldiers are in such a chaotic formation, as long as there are 200 horsemen rushing up before they retract, they can be defeated.
In the blink of an eye, more than 100 horsemen scattered to the two wings, seizing the low hills around the depression without the slightest delay.
Zhou Pu wouldn't really be stupid to sit on horseback and count, seeing that the wings were almost in place, he led his troops to rush down first, sweeping over the left side of the pond. The enemy army only sent thirty or fifty people to form a loose array to block a block, Zhou Pu galloped to the horse, an enemy soldier blocked in front of the horse, and the spear in his hand was cut off by one person on Zhou Pu's right side, Zhou Pu scolded unhappily: "I want you to do a lot of things!" "A knife also slashed, directly broke the helmet and broken forehead, and when the knife was closed in a tail-trailing style, the wound gushed with blood and white mixed things—all this went down, and the knife edge was not broken or rolled.
Zhou Pu still wanted to rush forward, but the left and right guards came over and clamped him, forcing him to pause; There were two people who dismounted directly, one with a knife to help Zhou Pu hold the reins, and the other with a shield to protect the front. Zhou Pu could only watch others rush into the enemy line before him and fight.
"You're going to be angry with Lao Tzu!" Zhou Pu was so angry that he screamed, holding the reins to kick people, and hurriedly persuaded left and right, "The leopard master must lack a hair, no matter how many enemies we kill, we have had no success!" Let us take this battle merit! Someone was kind enough to hand over a big bow, and Zhou Pu relieved his anger a little and took the bow.
In addition to the three or five hundred soldiers who have run up the mountain, most of the slopes and the foot of the mountain are in chaos, even if there are archers and shields, they are all fighting for themselves, and they are also squeezed from the left and right, only scattered arrows are shot, and the power is limited.
Without a formation, the infantry naturally could not pose a threat to the Huaidong cavalry wearing light armor.
Huaidong armored light cavalry abandoned the bow and crossbow and directly rushed into the chaotic formation, only Zhou Pu was surrounded by left and right and could not go deep into the enemy formation, and took the big bow to find those enemy generals wearing armor to shoot and kill.
In addition to the heavy armor cavalry in Huaidong, the armored light cavalry is mostly equipped with special war knives, which are three inches longer than ordinary war knives, but they are lighter, and they are flexible in chopping immediately, and relying on the advantage of three inches in length of the knife, Yuli chops and chops.
Although the hill occupied by Zheng Mingjing is not high, a section of the slope is very steep, and there is a large amount of gravel under the slope, which is weathered. The horse rushed to stand and slid straight, fell down with more than a dozen people in a row, and shot arrows to the Zhejiang-Fujian army on the mountain, Zhou Pu was forced to withdraw the soldiers and horses on this wing to kill the pawns elsewhere.
Zheng Mingjing wanted to cry without tears, except for the three or five hundred people who climbed the mountain with him, the other generals were all beaten to pieces by the Huaidong cavalry, and if they wanted to escape, how could a two-legged person outrun a four-legged horse?
Zhou Pu didn't want to hurt too much to storm the mountain, so he sent a sentry cavalry to keep an eye on the mountain pass, and the other soldiers and horses scattered to chase and kill.
When the sun was setting in the west, Zhao Bao also led a large cavalry battalion to come, nearly 1,500 horsemen, and surrounded the mountain.
There is a steep slope on the top of the mountain, and it is not easy to rush up with horses, but Wei Xu, Chen Daozi, Ma Po Monkey and other generals are still in a strong fighting spirit, and even Zhao Bao also took the initiative to ask for people to dismount and fight, and attack it.
"I don't know what kind of character the turtle son trapped on the mountain is," Zheng Mingjing's banner has not been lit, and he only cares about killing happily here, and there is not a single living captive, Zhou Pu squinted his eyes and looked, there is no advantage in dismounting under armor and light horsemanship, and there is a lack of weapons in the strong attack, the four or five hundred people on the mountain can not collapse in this situation, they want to attack hard, and the casualties will not be less, except for one Huaidong cavalry left in Xuzhou, the remaining two thousand horsemen are almost here, Zhou Pu thought about taking three or five hundred casualties to storm the mountain, There were so many people who wanted to scold him when he went back, touched his chin, and said, "Let's see how Liyang will react, the people in front of him will be more leisurely and take it back for Lao Tzu." Catch two more alive mouths and ask; I also want someone to tell Tang Fuguan that it would be good if he could go faster, that is, there may be a chance to help......"