Chapter 376: Huang Zhong's debut, the control between advance and retreat The next four
The night was cold and quiet.
The snow is still falling.
The sky and the earth under the starry sky are only a cold color.
On the trail, in the jungle, Huang Zhong was standing, his eyes were solemn, the war knife in his hand was in his hand, the armor on his body was shining with snowflakes, and the breath of his body was restrained, as if he was a wild wolf preyding.
"Uncle Zhong, will they really march overnight?" Zhang Ning stood beside him and asked faintly.
The whole plan is to encircle the point and send reinforcements.
The target is not Guo Yan.
From the very beginning, their goal was to be the main force of the good Li Yu.
"I don't know!"
When Huang Zhong heard this, he shook his head and said calmly: "I have done the best I can, now it depends on the will of God!" ”
In this battle, he consumed all his brain cells, and when he studied it, he was actually very nervous, and his palms were already sweating, but he still maintained the calmest self-confidence, and only in this way could he inspire his soldiers.
"Even if they come, if Yang Feng and Han Xian can't come back, I'm afraid we will also suffer!" Zhang Ning said worriedly.
If the main forces attacking Guo Yan's camp can't come back, they will be sent to death.
"I believe in them!"
The corners of Huang Zhong's mouth raised slightly, and he said categorically: "They want to win more than me, winning can make them fight with all their determination, they will definitely be able to rush back, and they must rush back!" ”
"General, here!"
Just then, a faint glow of fire appeared in the distance, and the scouts rushed to report.
"How many soldiers?"
Huang Zhong clenched his fists and asked in a deep voice.
"I have carefully surveyed, the front army is cavalry, the cavalry has been ambushed by us, and now there are only more than 2,000 soldiers, the middle army and the rear army are too long to count, we dare not startle the snake, so we will not get too close, avoid their scouts, can only watch from a distance, prima facie, it is impossible to be less than 15,000 troops!"
"Fifteen thousand?"
Huang Zhong squinted: "Pour out of the nest!" ”
"Li Yu is so worried about Guo Yan?" Zhang Ning was a little surprised.
"The Xiliang Army has always been united, otherwise it would not have the impression of today, and it is understandable that he poured out of the nest, after all, in Hedong, no one between them can stabilize the situation, and if they can't stabilize the situation in Hedong, Dong Zhuo will definitely blame them!"
Huang Zhong was very calm, and he began to arrange: "Guo Cong, Yang Xin!" ”
He had more than 6,000 main forces, and the casualties of the ambush on the official road were not large, and the rear charge was more than 300 casualties, but it did not damage the main force, and under the complete victory, he defeated the 3,000 Xiliang cavalry, which greatly boosted their morale, and they became more and more trusting of Huang Zhong, the main general.
"In!"
The commanders of the two battalions stood up and stood by.
"You lead the troops, stay left and right, and after I attack, if there is an order, you will give it, and if you don't have an order, you can't give it!" Huang Zhong said in a deep voice.
"No!"
If they were only convinced of Huang Zhong in martial arts before, then now, they have more respect for Huang Zhong, and today's battle has demonstrated that Huang Zhong is no less than the commander of Guo Tai, the commander of the Qu Shuai back then.
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The night was quiet, and all that remained was the sound of footsteps on the road.
"Can you get there before dawn?" Li Yu was anxious.
"It should work!"
Jia Xu said in a deep voice: "General Li, you have to believe General Guo, General Guo has 8,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, they are enough to deal with the Yellow Turban Army, and it is impossible to be defeated in one day, so we still have a chance!" ”
"I really want to know who the general of the Yellow Turban Army is this time!" Li Yu said gloomily: "In this way, if we Xiliang warriors play in their hands, we must be captured and shown to the public!" ”
"I want to know too!"
Jia Xu said quietly.
He looked at the quiet night around him, and there was a soldier hurrying with a tired look, and his brows furrowed slightly: "The original leisurely march, but now it is led by the nose, but it is so anxious to get up in a hurry, if it is attacked halfway......"
Thinking about it, his head throbbed suddenly, his pupils suddenly widened, and he looked around carefully, and then looked at the long queue that the Xiliang Army had put up on this road.
"Attacked halfway?" He squinted his eyes and muttered to himself, "Probably not, they have such a big appetite?" ”
"Don't stop?"
As a cautious person, as long as he thinks of it, he will prevent it, just in case, but now he can't stop the team at all, first of all, he just predicts, it can't be said that it is right or wrong, it is more groundless, and Li Yu is in a hurry to rescue Guo Yan, and it is useless for him to say it.
"Since you can't stop, let's get prepared!"
Thinking about it, Jia Xu rode his horse to the back.
"Where is the gentleman?" Li Yu was a little surprised, and hurriedly ordered the left and right guards to follow: "You guys follow up, protect the safety of Mr., don't let Mr. have an accident, otherwise a certain family will not be able to explain to General Niu Fu!" ”
"No!"
More than ten Xiliang soldiers with strong martial arts followed.
The army continued to march, and after walking for two miles, they found that the official road in front of them had become narrower, and the generals of the vanguard were a little embarrassed, so they returned to the Chinese army and reported to Li Yu.
"General, the road ahead has become narrow, for fear of an ambush, it is better for us to take a detour!"
"Detour?"
Li Yu frowned and shook his head: "Saving lives is like fighting a fire, take a detour, you must do more than twenty miles, you will definitely not be able to catch up before dawn, continue to move forward, although the terrain is narrow, but there should be no ambush, the Yellow Turban thieves are now storming General Guo's camp, there must be no troops to ambush us, but all parties are careful and vigilant!" ”
"No!"
The army moved on.
The road became narrow, four queues advanced, only two queues could change the city, the entire long dragon was more than doubled, one by one the soldiers held the fire, and the fire dragon formed in the sky by the long firelight.
"Boom, boom, boom!!!"
Suddenly, there was a loud noise.
"What sound?"
Many Xiliang soldiers stopped and looked around.
"It's rolling wood and stone, get out of the way!"
"Disperse!"
"Retreat, retreat!"
Soon they had already discovered what the sound was, and they could already see what was close at hand, and many of the generals began to shout.
"Ahh
"Help!"
"Help me!"
"Let's go!"
A terrible cry sounded in the Xiliang army.
The queue for nearly a mile was hit by ambushed rolling stones and rolling logs, and suffered heavy casualties.
There were 2,000 vanguard cavalry, more than half of which were lost.
"It's a trap, you're targeting me?"
Li Yu was blindfolded all of a sudden, his pupils scanned the surroundings, and then he realized that he seemed to have entered a canyon-like terrain, his eyes were red, he gritted his teeth, and shouted loudly: "Retreat!" ”
"Withdraw!"
"Retreat!"
"Hurry up!"
In the midst of the main army, under the shouts of a burst, the Xiliang army began to withdraw from the rear.
"If you want to withdraw now, are you still in time?"
Huang Zhong stood up from the jungle hillside and raised his sword to kill: "Sons, their cavalry has been cleaned up by us, now, we don't have to fear them, follow me to kill the enemy!" ”
"Kill!"
"Kill!"
Thousands of Yellow Turban troops rushed down, like an ambush in the battle of the day, and their morale was even higher.
"The general is out!"
"That's the signal to charge!"
The Yellow Turban soldiers who were ambushed on the left and right also rushed out under the leadership of Yang Feng and Han Xian.
"There are ambushes!"
"Be careful!"
"Steady!"
"Don't mess around!"
The Xiliang army is the elite after all, although it is still chaotic, but the generals have begun to stabilize and continue to form formations.
"Bastards, you're looking for death!"
Li Yu was annoyed and ashamed, and his voice like the sun had become his nightmare, and his anger completely erupted: "You are all going to die today!" ”
He saw clearly that although the ambush soldiers and horses were mencing, in fact, there were not many troops, even if he lost the cavalry, he still had more than 10,000 main forces under his command, and he could kill this group of ambushed soldiers thoroughly.
"The warriors of Xiliang, we are undefeated, today we will use their blood to comfort our sons who died in battle, and kill them!"
Li Yu took the lead and suddenly killed.
"Kill it!"
"Kill it!"
The soldiers of Xiliang have been fighting in the wilderness for many years, fighting with the Qiang people, fighting with the Hu people, and fighting with the Xiongnu, and they have already cultivated a wild fighting heart.
"It's worthy of the Xiliang Army!"
In a head-to-head confrontation, the Yellow Turban Army will definitely not be able to defeat it, even if it is ambushed, the Yellow Turban Army has suffered a lot of losses in the face of this group of wolf-like Xiliang elite soldiers, and Huang Zhong feels very difficult: "In the face of this situation, you can fight back!" ”
"General, withdraw!"
"We can't beat it, let's withdraw!"
The commanders of the Yellow Turban Battalion couldn't stop it, and shouted again and again.
"No!"
Huang Zhong said in a deep voice: "After supporting for a quarter of an hour, after a quarter of an hour, our main force will come, remember not to consume, while entangled with them, retreat, and drag on this canyon for a quarter of an hour!" ”
After speaking, he was as crazy as a tiger and wolf with a big knife, and he killed alone in the Yellow Turban formation.
"Who is this man?"
Li Yu found the most eye-catching member of the entire battlefield, the Yellow Turban General, and he squinted his eyes and stared at this person deadly.
"I don't know!"
"It's terrifying, he's already killed three of our captains in a row, and no one can stop him for a round!"
"There should have been no such characters in the Yellow Turban Army before!"
All the generals looked at Huang Zhong who was killing in all directions with some horror.
"Humph!"
Li Yu sneered: "I want to see who is the crossbowman and snipe him!" ”
He didn't have the confidence to be able to fight this person directly, and he was cautious that he wouldn't catch up with the battlefield at this time, he wanted to turn defeat into victory, and if he wanted to fight back against this Yellow Turban Army, he had to sit firmly in the middle army.
The battle was in full swing, and the flames were rising into the sky, which had already turned this road red, and half of the sky was shining, and the sound of fighting could penetrate the nine heavens away.
The Yellow Turban soldiers are less than 6,000, or they still suffer losses, the battle of ambush has become a war of attrition, and they are defeated and retreated, even the canyon is unstable, this road looks narrow, in fact, it is not long, as long as it penetrates this canyon and rushes out of the plain battlefield outside, the Xiliang army charges, pressing the Yellow Turban Army to fight, once the Xiliang army breaks through the canyon terrain and rushes out of the plain battlefield, I am afraid that none of them can escape.
"Retreat!"
"Fight and retreat!"
"Defensive formation!"
Huang Zhong charged three times in a row, but was blocked back by a bow and arrow, and he ordered to start withdrawing his troops and withdraw from the front.
"This time, no matter what, can't let them run!"
The blood of the Xiliang Army is surging.
"Rush out!"
All the way out of the canyon and hit the plain battlefield, the strength advantage of the Xiliang army also unfolded at once, forming a net, and directly slaughtered them: "Go out of the ranks left and right, bypass them, in order to kill them!" ”
"Yellow turbans, don't be afraid, a certain Yang Feng is here!"
"A certain Han Xian is here!"
At this moment, on the left and right sides of the plain, the sound of surging footsteps with a killing momentum suddenly erupted.
They each led more than 5,000 troops, and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops rushed over from the left and right sides.
"The Yellow Turbans?"
"That's their workhorse!"
"Damn!"
"How so!"
"I've been fooled!"
"Go back, go back!"
The officers and men of the Xiliang Army were like riding a roller coaster, up and down, all of them lost their direction from play, and they suddenly got up anxiously one by one in the face of the charge of tens of thousands of Yellow Turban Army.
"Withdraw!" Li Yu's silver teeth were crushed, his pupils widened, gloomy as water, and he coldly ordered: "Retreat!" ”
"Retreat!"
"Retreat!"
The Xiliang Army was transferred to the front and rear of the army, and it was quickly withdrawn from the back.
But it was too late, and the entire formation was exposed to the Yellow Turban Army's field of vision.
"Chase!"
"Not a single one left!"
"I'm going to crush them!"
Huang Zhong has calculated for so long, two ambushes, and two shows of weakness, just to completely defeat Li Yu's main force, and he will never want to see Li Yu's main force withdraw again.
"What should I do?"
Li Yu was cold: "Could it be that I, Li Yu, am I going to be defeated here today?" ”
"Knock Knock Knock !!!!"
Suddenly, a burst of drums sounded in the mountains, and figures appeared on the left and right sides of the canyon, and battle flags were erected, and the battle flags could be seen from the faint light, which was the military flag of the Xiliang Army.
"What's going on?"
Huang Zhong was shocked, he looked around left and right, when did the Xiliang army appear in the place where he was ambushed, could it be that the Xiliang army recognized his plan, so he came to a counter-encirclement?
"Stop!" He ordered the pursuing men and horses to stop and not enter the gorge.
"Our reinforcements are coming, quick!"
"Withdraw!"
Li Yu was overjoyed in his heart and hurriedly ordered.
"General, if you don't chase, they'll run away!"
Yang Feng and Han Xian came up and said impatiently.
"What if this is a trap?" Huang Zhong asked rhetorically.
The two didn't match, they also saw it, there were two columns on the left and right, and there were many figures, if they rushed down, they couldn't stop it at all.
"Withdraw!"
Huang Zhong immediately decided: "We can't take risks, since the goal has been achieved, let's retreat and rush back to Baibo Valley before dawn, otherwise the exposed tracks will be attacked left and right, and we won't be able to leave!" ”
"No!"
Yang Feng and Han Xian received the order.
The Yellow Turban Army withdrew, and the battle also came to an end, and the Xiliang Army breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Yu was very embarrassed, he looked at the left and right of the canyon: "This is reinforcements?" ”
"What reinforcements!"
Jia Xu walked down and said with a wry smile: "The grass and trees are just soldiers, and they barely scared them away!" ”
Just now he suddenly woke up, worried about an ambush, so he went to make this preparation, but he didn't expect it to really come in handy, just a thousand soldiers, with the sound of drums and grass and trees as the shadow, forming the illusion of tens of thousands of ambush soldiers.
It was easy to debunk, but he gambled that the Yellow Turban Master would not dare to take any chances.
It can be regarded as a bet that he is right, so that the vitality preserved by the Xiliang army will be pursued in the plain at the mouth of the canyon, otherwise in this battle tonight, even if Li Yu is not wiped out, he will be injured by more than half, and his vitality will be greatly damaged, and he will not be able to fight back.
"What the hell is going on?" To the current position, Li Yu is still a little confused.
In this battle, he turned into rice paste, he was ambushed for a while, Guo Yan was ambushed for a while, okay, went to reinforcements, but was surrounded by people to send reinforcements, where did the Yellow Turban Army get so many soldiers and horses.
"We are calculated!"
Jia Xu was in a hurry, although he was calculated because he was not familiar with the opponent, but he quickly figured it out: "They withdrew their troops from the beginning, the goal was our main force, and they did so much to confuse us, for tonight's ambush, our soldiers and horses were tired, and we hurried late at night, and we also walked the small road canyon in order to hurry, and it was normal to fall into their ambush!" ”
"And how many soldiers and horses do they have?"
"Not much, just what we see right in front of us!"
Jia Xu said.
"Good guy, you actually toyed with us and applauded!" Li Yu said gloomily: "I want to regroup and kill them without leaving a piece of armor!" ”
"Merge General Guo's soldiers and horses first, and then march to Baibo Valley!"
Jia Xu said.
This place is very close to Baibo Valley, he believes that after the Yellow Turban Army retreats, they will inevitably return directly to Baibo Valley, and now, it is not practical for them to withdraw to Jiangyi, since it has been opened, it is the most appropriate behavior to attack Baibo Valley directly.
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The next day, in the afternoon.
White Wave Valley.
In the valley, the Yellow Turban Army has completed the task of arming, tens of thousands of soldiers have arranged the city wall, mountain roads, and waterways very tightly, in front of the valley, the main force of the Xiliang Army opened the formation, and the sharp military formation burst out with a fierce offensive momentum.
"General, it seems that the previous battle failed to consume Xiliang's vitality, I thought that they would have to rest for at least two days before they lined up in front of the valley, but I didn't expect to press the formation up so quickly!" At the head of the city, Yang Feng and Han Xian stood left and right, and the tall figure standing in the middle was Huang Zhong.
"Expected!"
Huang Zhong carried his hands on his back, after a battle, he had already faded away from that apprehension, and now he was more stable: "Although we did not succeed in defeating their main force, we finally suppressed their morale and sharpness, which can be regarded as our success!" ”
"The general is clever, if it weren't for the general's strategy, I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to breathe this out!"
Yang Feng arched his hand and said: "After this battle, our fear of facing the Xiliang army has disappeared, and the county's soldiers have recovered their morale!" ”
He is considered to have surrendered to Huang Zhong, Huang Zhong is not only strong in martial arts, he can defeat his alliance with Han Xian within a few moves, and live up to the name of Nanyang Sword King, but more importantly, in this battle, Huang Zhong's battlefield control showed that they had to be convinced.
They all knew that Huang Zhong was in charge of the army for the first time.
But in this battle, Huang Zhong's performance made them ashamed, especially the control between advance and retreat, they couldn't do such accurate control after a hundred battles, this is a rookie on the battlefield, a battlefield veteran at all, and only after a hundred battles can he have control.
"And we've achieved our goal!"
Han Xian said: "Before, we pushed to Jiangyi to fight and dragged them down with an offensive, and now they come to fight Baibo Valley, and we are also holding them down, but the advantage is completely ours!" ”
"But still can't be careful!"
Huang Zhong said in a deep voice: "Although they have suffered a loss, but the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army has been shown, we are indeed inferior, although Baibo Valley is a town, but the city wall is very low, and the defense is not strong, if they attack, there may not be no chance to break through, so next, we must not only drag them down, but also block them, and we must not let them go further!" ”
"Don't worry, general, we will be able to hold it!"
Han Xian and Yang Feng nodded and said confidently.