Chapter Ninety-Four: The Two Armies Face Each Other
The night wind in Longxi was howling, and the jumping of the bonfire outside the military tent upset Ma Yue.
On the first night of the battle against Song Jian, his military tent advanced fifteen miles to the south.
A battle in the middle of the day turned into a big chase against Song Jian, and his eldest nephew's move to kill nine generals in front of the formation will surely move the world. It's just that the battle situation is not as ideal as imagined.
The pursuit of the whole army did not cause the rout of the soldiers and horses at the head of the river, Song Yang, the king of Qi and Han, led more than 1,000 soldiers and horses to meet the attack, creating enough time for Song Jian to retreat most of the troops, although it retreated thirty miles, but failed to expand the results, after paying hundreds of lives, Song Yang was escorted by his own guards to retreat, and Song Yang had already set up a formation in the back and waited for Ma Yue to attack.
A big victory had to be abandoned, and Song Jian still had 30,000 soldiers and horses, except for a little demoralization and no damage.
Early the next morning, the soldiers buried the pot to make rice, Ma Yue climbed to the top of Rongqiu Mountain and looked south, the formation of the Heshou army was gathering, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses were arranged horizontally and horizontally, and they were connected to the foot of the big snow mountain at the end of the day.
Ma Yue wrapped his robe tightly, the sky in Liangzhou is like this, even if it is a hot summer, he still has to wrap the fox fur in the morning and evening to not feel cold.
Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and he knows that this battle is only afraid of more evil and less auspicious.
If he had 5,000, no, 3,000 elites like the Flying Bear Army, he would have enough confidence to win this war by relying on his own military strategy, but he only had 700 elites, and he was afraid that the number of the Heshou Wang's army would be greater than this number, not to mention the 30,000 army spread out in front of him.
Ambition is hard to pay.
"Jun Hao, it's almost, let's organize the army."
Guan Yu dressed up, carrying a huge long-handled ring knife at the foot of Rongqiu, saw Ma Yue coming down the mountain and greeted him, Ma Yue nodded quietly, patted Guan Yu's shoulder, and looked a little reluctant, "Yun Chang, you and Gongming must protect yourself, if the front is defeated as a last resort, retreat." ”
"This battle can be lost, you can't die."
Guan Yu smiled, in this battle, Ma Zong Xu Huang will supervise the army in front of the battle as his deputy, and the danger is much smaller than fighting in battle. "San Lang, you can't lose this battle, if you lose Hanyang, it's gone."
Ma Yue is too different from a prince, which prince would not care about the land under his feet at all, and be full of thoughts about the life and death of the general. In other words, others wish that the generals would die in battle and win.
"Hanyang is gone, I can fight back." Ma Yue's words revealed a sense of confidence, turned over and rode towards the military village.
He has always kept in mind a truth, everything he has is fought for him by his brothers, the territory can be lost, the gold and silver can be lost, but the hearts of the people are scattered, and he has nothing.
More than 10,000 troops were prepared in the time of half a pillar of incense, the guns were like a forest in front of the formation, and the light bow and light crossbow were sandwiched with 700 flying bear troops and more than 1,000 armored troops, and the sergeants were holding all the tall horses in the formation, and the left and right side horses were also majestic.
The solemnity of the imminent battle was like the wind and sand, and the men finally prepared their armor and wiped their sharp weapons, although their arms trembled a little.
"Destiny is permanent, and we Liangzhou people believe in fate." Ma Yue saw the nervousness of the soldiers, he paced the horse and shuttled through the military formation, the cool breeze blew through his clothes, and roared the loudest, so that every soldier could hear his shouts, "We are the Han, we are the arms and minions of the Han, Song Jian went against the sky and proclaimed himself the king, and declared war with us!" There are many thieves today, but we will be transported by heaven and will surely break the thieves here! ”
The same voice, thought of everywhere in the battle array, the generals relieved the tension of their soldiers in the same way, almost half of the recruits in this battle were honest farmers who had just put down their farm tools and carried wooden spears, and nervousness was inevitable. But the recruits in the land of Liangzhou, fortunately, the quality of the soldiers is higher, even if they have no experience in battle, they have experience in fighting, and their fear is much smaller, not to mention, the men in Liangzhou all have a heart to make meritorious contributions, and everyone covets the battlefield in their hearts!
Guan Yu, Ma Zong, and Xu Huang supervised the step bow, Li Wei on the left wing, and Yang Qiu on the right wing were candidates for the second general, the only thing about Ma Yue stronger than Song Jian is that he has brave generals who dominate the world, and the elite generals who lead the Chinese army are even more fierce, not to mention the fierce Guo Aduo, who is as fierce as a tiger, is famous enough for Yan Xingwei, the captain of Changshui who has beheaded generals and captured the flag several times, not to mention Ma Chao, who killed nine generals before yesterday's battle.
Ma Yue waved the command flag, and the flag several feet high behind him was waving in the wind, and the entire military formation moved forward slowly in a relatively loose state.
Sitting on the battlefield holding the chariot, his Chinese army chose a higher breakthrough, which was convenient for Ma Yue to look at the front line, and the horses galloped back and forth in the formation, constantly calling out the instructions in Qiang Chinese.
Despite the strength of the enemy's army, Ma Yue looked at the 10,000-strong army formation that was rolling forward, and a horizontal sword immediately rose in his chest, and the roaring and kicking sound of the horse's hooves brought his thoughts back to the continent a few years ago.
At that time, he could only look at Huangfu Song who was sitting on the wheel with admiration, riding on a Xianbei war horse and fighting to the death.
No matter how much effort he put into it, he is now the one who calls the shots, despite his small territory and small army.
But he Ma Yue already has armor in his hand!
At this moment, if someone wants to take away Ma Yue's rule, he will never agree!
The forces of the two sides are moving, and unlike Ma Yue's step-by-step battalion, Song Jian understands that his advantage lies in the absolute strength of the army, and he is determined to win this battle with an army of 30,000 and 30,000 people. Although the general lost, he didn't think that the competition would still lose, and the three armies marched together, and they wanted to encircle more than 10,000 troops in it.
Two armies clash with each other!
There were still a thousand paces away, and the cavalry of the front army of the river head rushed forward, and nearly 3,000 cavalry suddenly protruded in the array, galloping with spears and whistles, and rushed straight to the foot soldiers of the front army of Ma Yue.
"Shoot the arrows!"
Ma Yue stood on the wheel and suddenly drew his sword, one by one the men roared the command in the military formation and passed it quickly, the flag waved, the crossbowmen of the front army raised their bows and bent the arrows, and the arrows rained out under the command of the military marquis, and more than 2,000 arrows covered the sky and the sun and roared down, like a flying locust shrouded in the head of the galloping river head cavalry.
Everyone understands that this group of cavalry is here to break the formation, in a vain attempt to tear open the gap!
The cavalry galloping on Pegasus had no chance to hide, and raised their arms and shields to cover their heads, but a few cavalrymen still fell off their horses.
In the sprint, falling off the horse means death.
Then another rain of arrows arrived, but this was the last chance for the Ma Yue army, the fierce Caohan cavalry was only a hundred steps away from the military formation, which was almost instantaneous for the cool cavalry that came and went like the wind, the galloping cavalry crashed into the military formation, completely not afraid of the Han army's horizontal long wooden spear, the horse was pierced by the spear, the sound of the wooden handle breaking was endless, the cavalry entered the formation in the impact, drew the saber and slashed left and right, but more than 700 cavalry rushed into the formation, but the entire front army infantry formation was chaotic.
Guan Yu stared at the horizontal sword, the enemy foot soldiers had already spread their legs and rushed towards their own army formation, if they couldn't organize the formation by then, they would not be able to resist the impact of the 30,000 army!
At that moment, he no longer hesitated, with a flick of his arm, the long-handled heavy ring had already started, and he raised his hand to remove the foot soldiers who were blocking in front of him and rushed into the front of the battle formation towards the head of the riverhead cavalry, the sharp long ring split the leather armor, and the blood burst out of Guan Yu's face, Guan Yu roared: "Stabilize the formation!" ”
Ma Yue's attention was not in front of the formation, he knew that hundreds of cavalry could not make too much impact on his army formation, looking at the Hetou foot soldiers who rushed to six hundred paces away, his arms were under his command again, and shouted: "Projectile, four hundred steps!" ”
The archers of the front army were not confused by the impact under the protection of the foot soldiers, and after receiving the order, they bent the bow and threw again, the arrows were shot into the air, and the weight of the arrows fell rapidly, nailing hundreds of galloping river head foot soldiers to the ground, a wail on the battlefield could not deter the river head foot soldiers who were not afraid of death, and the foot soldiers who were not shot continued to impact the Han army's main formation without pause, like a moving wall slamming into the front army of the Han army, for a time blood sprayed, stumps and broken arms flew up and down, screams and wails occupied the battlefield, Mixed with angry roars!
Stalemate, the Han army is like a flat boat in the raging tide, the battle line may collapse at any time, but it has been pulled back again and again, and it is not an inch.
Ma Yue looked at the crowd of people in the rear of the enemy, his troops were constantly pressing forward, and he did not have the slightest impatience in his heart, although he knew that his robe was dying in battle, but his heart was clear.
He can't panic, he doesn't dare to panic, he must find the flaws in the enemy army and tear open the gap with elite troops, this is the only tactic that can be used!
The oppression continued, and the enemy flank did not attack the Chinese army as Ma Yue imagined, but spread out and outflanked the left and right, he smiled.
Song Jian was too greedy and wanted to completely surround his entire army, and then defeat his entire army to the greatest extent. Despite this, the aggressive tactics will put Ma Yue in a situation where there is no way to escape, but for Ma Yue, what is terrible now is not being surrounded, but besieging the division!
If the enemy is absolutely superior, some of the casualties will spread fear in the army, and the fleeing soldiers will cause the formation to collapse.
But if it is fenced, there will be no such worries, and the soldiers can only fight to the death, but will exert greater combat effectiveness!
Moreover, among them, Song Jian's Heshou army is bound to change formations, as long as he changes formations, Ma Yue will have a chance!
"The front army retreated a hundred paces to be deterred by bows and crossbows, the flanks were contracted, and the foot soldiers spread out in a circular formation!"
The fateful order was passed on, and the entire army began to change rapidly, although the two sides invested 50,000 troops, but Ma Yue's battle line was not very long, and the front of less than 2,000 steps determined that Song Jian's army could not put pressure on the whole army. Immediately after that, the troops in front of the Heshou Army found that the originally impregnable enemy forces began to appear and retreat, and each time the front army rotated farther away, so that they had enough distance to pursue.
This change was even more obvious in the eyes of Song Jian, who was commanding on the hill in the distance, he saw the enemy's flank releasing arrows to stop the flank, and the foot rider quickly retracted under the cover of the bow and crossbow, and before his order could be passed on, the enemy army had already surrounded the hill where Ma Yue was located into a ring formation with a thousand-step battle line on all sides, although he could not see the interface in the rear, but this was undoubtedly good news for Song Jian.
Ma Yue's change of formation means that he is worried about being surrounded and scattering his troops.
Song Jian jumped down from the temporary dirt slope built in order to climb the height, pointed at the Han army forward and shouted: "Heshou Wang's army guards obey the order, attack the Han army's front, and capture Ma Yue alive!" ”
With such an order, a cavalry of more than a thousand people charged from the rear army, and with the billowing smoke and dust behind them, they headed towards Pegasus, the place where the two armies clashed on the battlefield.