Chapter 12: Covering the armor and going into battle
The war in Hanoi County began, and Han Hao supervised the newly recruited more than 2,000 foot soldiers who did not even have time to train, so they were constantly harassed by a small group of Hun cavalry in the field.
Wang Kuang sent several letters asking for help, asking Bao Xin, the commander of the cavalry, and Zhang Miao, the commander of Chen Liutai, to send troops to support.
The soldiers of Hanoi County will never be able to reach Luoyang.
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There is no blue in the sky above the hazy Tongguan, and the dark clouds are directly pressing on the roof of the Tongguan City Tower, and it is also pressing on people's hearts.
Ma Yue rode his horse and looked left and right in the chaos, and the routed soldiers under his command ran back desperately, not even paying attention to him, the state pastor, and abandoned their armor and burrowed into the camouflage camp. At this time, he was no longer worried that Yuan Shao would not order the pursuit...... In this kind of retreat, even he will order the cavalry to go out of the city to chase and kill, and even order the whole army to press and destroy the camp.
Although he knew that Yuan Shao would most likely not miss this fighter, his heart seemed to be dripping blood. This was a real retreat, but it was not something he had negotiated with his generals in advance. These Liangzhou recruits who served him saw for the first time what it was called siege and what ants were in a short period of time.
Half a pillar of incense, a short engagement, they left thousands of corpses outside Tongguan.
The stump and severed arm are no less tragic than any war that Ma Yue has personally experienced.
The debts of these soldiers' lives will be counted on his heads!
"Withdraw! Keep the formation retreating, don't mess with yourself! "Ma Yue, who has always loved soldiers like a son, has experienced this situation, that is, he personally broke the rear, and his subordinates would retreat according to his orders in the most difficult war, but this time it was completely different. In order to ensure that the enemy was lured out of the city, he unscrupulously ordered his soldiers to storm Xiongguan, if Yuan Shao did not pursue, could not bring him a big victory, his status in the hearts of the people of Liangzhou would instantly fall from the world's famous generals to incompetent mediocrity. "Watch out for the enemy's pursuit and hold your ground!"
Ma Yue looked up in the direction of the puppet camp in a panic, he knew that behind the camp was hidden the armored heavy infantry army, and when the army walked through the paved wooden road, it would be blocked by the west gate, besieging the pursuing enemy army inside.
There were only two exits to the east and west of the puppet camp, and the wide and open camp gate was covered with wooden planks made of logs, and several wooden frames were erected outside the west gate for bows and crossbows to stand and throw arrows into the camp. By removing the log bundles after the enemy enters the camp, the enemy can be easily sealed in the camp and turned into a group of targets crowded together.
Underneath the log bundle was a pit full of barbs three zhang wide and one foot deep, from which no one could escape.
With a heavy squeak, the gate of Tongguan opened!
Open all three!
Ma Yue was full of surprise to see the soldiers and horses under the banner of Chun Yu going out of the city, Sanmen rushed out of more than a thousand soldiers and horses in the blink of an eye, and the black pressure behind him was a banner, and it seemed that Yuan Shao wanted to seize the opportunity to bite him hard.
A hideous smile flashed on his face for a moment, but his hands kept moving, and he hurriedly urged his horses to run out of a path in the rout, and while galloping, he looked back and shouted to the rout: "The pursuers are coming, flee quickly, flee to the main camp!" Run away, don't get caught up by the enemy! ”
That being said, but where did these foot soldiers run fast with the Sizhou cavalry, and only nearly half of the foot soldiers rushed into the pseudo camp, they had already been bitten by the tail of the Yuan army cavalry, and the ring knife and spear were about to kill a bloody road straight to the Liangzhou army camp in the blink of an eye.
The ears were full of the wails of the Liangzhou army and the crazy roar of the Sizhou cavalry, only to see the Chun Yuqiong with a rosacea nose under the windward face of the enemy army, taking the lead, holding a strong bow and rushing to the left, and the ring of knives and arrows desperately harvested the lives of the Liangzhou soldiers.
Ma Yue had already ridden out of the pseudo-camp at this time, and was meeting Gan Ning, who was wearing heavy armor, and hundreds of armored men behind him, at this moment, the situation was tense, Ma Yue did not talk to Gan Ning at all, and rushed towards the main camp after the armored heavy step.
When he arrived at the Shuai Tai, Ma Yue stood up from his horse and shouted: "Drumming and marching!" ”
"Drumming march!"
"Knock knock!" ...... "Knock knock! ...... "Knock knock!"
The eight-sided war drums of Shuaitai were suddenly beaten by the shirtless wrestlers of the Liangzhou Army, and the earth-shattering war drums exploded. And Ma Yue had already jumped down three steps at the moment when the drum sounded, stepped up to the platform and waved to the flag bearer.
The flag was waved in the army, which was the flag that ordered the rout to separate the left and right.
Gan Ning couldn't wait for a long time, this was the first time he personally led the armor-covered heavy step into a large-scale battle, the earth-shattering drums behind him made him excited, kicked on the back of the axe that was upside down on the ground, and roared with one hand with the heavy axe: "Armored army, and Lao Tzu threw the Sizhou cub into the Yellow River to feed the fish!" ”
"Roar! Kill! ”
Hundreds of armored heavy infantry soldiers began to charge with battle axes, and the Liangzhou rout soldiers who saw the banner parted to both sides like flowing water. In fact, it doesn't matter if they don't see the flag and run backwards with their heads covered, because even if they can't see the flag, they can always see the charging steel gods, and no one wants to have any physical collision with these people, only the chariot can collide with them!
The mortal body is the fate of falling to the ground if it is mounted on it, and a group of heavily armored soldiers slammed over it...... There is only one way to turn into mud.
Chun Yuqiong shot more than ten arrows one after another, and even pulled the strong bow to teach him that his fingers were numb, and he was covered with blood, and the cavalry behind him trampled a bloody path on the camp together, and all that was left behind him were stumps and broken arms!
Collected the longbow and lifted the ring knife, the horse just galloped to the middle of the camp, looking at the tall Daxu immediately waved the knife away, Luoyang's best knife craftsman and galloping horsepower turned into a cold knife light flashed on the wooden pole. Chun Yuqiong didn't care about the big rope that fell to the ground, and let the ordinary cavalry around him snatch it.
Ma Yue's Daxu is a meritorious service for ordinary soldiers, but he doesn't need merit!
He didn't want to be promoted again, he was still too young to stand still. He was a friend of Yuan Benchu and Yuan Highway, but he didn't want to be their subordinate.
After this battle, he wants to submit a table to the court and ask to be appointed as a taishou!
The formation of the Si Lijun was chaotic when it rushed into the camp, and it was certainly related to the fact that the Liangzhou soldiers blocked the West Gate and squeezed into a ball in a panic. More of it is related to the ordnance and baggage left by the Liangzhou Army in the corner of the camp. These things are like enemy generals, all of them are trophies. The Han army is not the Liangzhou army, they don't prosper the trophies, but these things are all military exploits!
Because of this, as soon as these Sizhou cavalry entered the camp, they rushed to all parts of the camp to grab combat power, except for a few generations of young people with military achievements who always followed Chun Yuqiong to fight to the death, those newly recruited ordinary children rushed to the four directions regardless of the formation, and the spears and spears of Tun were smiling with brocade, and there were even horsemen who dismounted to push the wheelbarrow left in the camp by the Liangzhou army, and there were even soldiers who fought each other for a box of war sharps.
Chun Yuqiong felt that something was wrong, the camp built by Ma Yue was not standardized, or it was not in line with the art of war.
Usually the camp opens four doors or three doors, unless the back is against the mountains and rivers will open the door on both sides, but at this time the camp that falls on the hillside is more than north and south, the east and west are insufficient, but only open two doors in the east and west like an urn.
It stands to reason that Ma Yue is not a person who does not know about military affairs?
Then, before the galloping horse had not yet taken ten steps, Chun Yuqiong hurriedly reined in the horse, and made the horse tilt its head to the right side with a sharp stop, and the two hind legs ploughed two deep leads on the ground at the beginning of the heavy rain, and let out a sad wail.
"So, what's that!" Chun Yuqiong felt the cold hairs on her back explode, pointed ahead and shouted in panic: "Quickly retreat, quickly give Lao Tzu a retreat, withdraw from this camp!" ”
He couldn't believe his eyes, he saw hundreds of people in front of him wearing heavy iron armor, it was not at all the iron armor heavy infantry army formation that the poor countryside in Liangzhou could support, how could Ma Yue have this kind of strength?
Chun Yuqiong stopped in time, but the young riders who followed him were not so good, they bit the tail of the Liangzhou infantry and went straight out of the camp, a young rider was inserting a spear in the back of a Liangzhou infantry soldier, and before he could retract the spear, the Liangzhou infantry suddenly protruded a battle axe behind him, cutting off the spear shaft in two. Then, he saw a man shrouded in armor with a pair of eyes that were full of fierce intent.
Then the iron battle axe swung back, and the heavy back of the axe smashed into the side of the horse's face, and then the rider felt that the horse was weak under his crotch, and saw that the whole horse's head was smashed to pieces, red and yellow.
It was only then that the young rider realized what kind of army he was facing, and he saw hundreds of battle-axe infantry in full armor charging towards him, with a battle axe on his head...... The thin iron hood could not stop this axe at all, and the young rider only knew it at this time...... It turns out that the weapon is pierced into the head, and this is the feeling.
The battle situation is more intuitive in the eyes of Yuan Shao at the head of the city, the tall camp of the Liangzhou army blocked his sight, but he couldn't stop the scene at the camp gate, and when he saw a field of thousands of heavy infantry, Yuan Shao knew that he had fallen into Ma Yue's trick to lure the enemy, but he was not panicked. He understood what Ma Yue had been doing quietly all these years when he returned to Liangzhou, and God knew where he had secretly purchased such a batch of iron armor to arm his Liangzhou elite.
Defeat, it is defeat, but in Yuan Shao's heart, the loss will not be too big.
"Mingjin, let Chunyu withdraw." The sound of the golden drum sounded behind Yuan Shao, he tilted his head, obviously a little unable to swallow this breath, Ma Yue can make up hundreds of heavy steps by relying on Liangzhou's financial resources, how can he Yuan Benchu guard the Luoyang arsenal? beckoned to Yan Liang, Yuan Shao said: "Yan Liang, lead the halberd to answer Chunyu!" ”
"Only then did you know that you were afraid? I'm afraid it's too late. On the other side, Ma Yue heard the sound of the golden drum coming from Tongguan, and with a cruel smile on his face, he beckoned and shouted: "Sound the second drum, and order the second cavalry of the armored army to send troops!" ”
With the two war drums, a roaring roar suddenly erupted on the bank of the Weishui River, and Ma Chao led more than 1,000 armored light horsemen to rush out with a bow. The same is true in the southern valley, Yan Xing jumped out of the valley, holding a muddy iron spear and leading a steel beast-like armored heavy cavalry out of the valley, and the two cavalry rolled up the earth dragon and galloped towards the front camp of the Xiliang army.
On Tongguan City, Yuan Shao, who saw this scene, sat down and shouted, "Tell Yan Liang to stop!" …… Chun Yu, Chun Yu is gone! ”
With a sad face on his face, Yuan Shao pointed to the sky and sighed, "How can Ma Junhao have such soldiers and horses!" ”