Chapter 325: Attack the enemy crossing the river again
Liu Xian's original plan was to hope that Yang's County could hold on for at least three or a few days under the attack of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro. As long as he can hold on for a few days, then Liu Xian will have enough time to operate and find a way to defeat the tens of thousands of Montenegrin Yellow Turban troops besieging Montenegro.
As long as there is enough time for Liu Xian to operate, then it will be no problem to destroy the tens of thousands of Black Mountain Yellow Turban troops besieging Yangshi County.
Yangshi County is a relatively four-square city, and the men and horses of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro are distributed around Yangshi County, according to the reconnaissance of spies. In fact, the siege army of each city wall is actually six or seven thousand men and horses, and it is not Pingjun distributed outside the four city walls of Yangshi County.
The west of the city is actually the main direction of attack of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, and the main force led by Zhang Niujiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, has about 20,000 people.
With Liu Xian's current strength, it is naturally impossible to make a move against the main force of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro. However, it was possible to attack the Yellow Turbans on the other four walls.
Liu Xian had already thought about it, he only needed to defeat and eliminate those men and horses who intended to cross the river to loot Liulin Village, and further consume their troops, so that they did not dare to send military horses to kill them across the river. In this way, it was time for Liu Xian to take the initiative to attack the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army that was besieging Yang's County.
When the time comes, Liu Xian can work with Huang Zhong to use those hidden boats and rafts to kill the river anytime and anywhere, and even secretly suddenly appear behind the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army besieging Yangshi County. For example, more than 2,000 military horses escorted by the Liufu caravan in Liulin Village can be transported directly from Daheze outside Liulin Village to the vicinity of the south of Yangshi County. Then he suddenly struck out and attacked those Black Mountain Yellow Turban troops who were attacking the city outside the south of Yang's County.
The Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army attacking the city outside the city wall, after they attacked the city for most of the day, they have lost more than 1,000 men and horses, and the real strength may be more than 5,000. Liu Xian's current 2,000 or so men and horses are naturally unlikely to win a head-on battle with the 5,000 Yellow Turban Army, but if they suddenly go out and attack from behind, this situation is completely different.
What's more, Liu Xian will not be too greedy, after a round of attacks, those Black Mountain Yellow Turban troops on the other two nearby city walls will definitely come over to support. At that time, Liu Xian retreated before the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro who supported him arrived. This attack is not a real entanglement, and it is completely possible to withdraw and retreat in time. This retreat retreated back to the raft of the great river and disappeared into the reeds of the great river.
Then, Liu Xian could land again from somewhere else and carry out a sneak attack on the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro.
Liu Xian integrated those archers, and when the time came, the attack could only be carried out with archers, and it was good to shoot hundreds of Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army at a time, and he only needed to sneak attack a few more times, and he could also slowly consume the strength of the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army.
After the strength of the Yellow Turban Army in Montenegro was reduced to a certain extent, Liu Xian could fight them head-on. At that time, the men and horses of Yang's County will also be killed together, if it is possible, Huang Zhong can find their big leader Zhang Niujiao, shoot Zhang Niujiao, and let Zhang Niujiao be shot in the battle against Yang's County as in history. In this way, the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro has only one way to lose.
But now, according to the report of the spies who were watching Yang County from a distance, the situation in Yang County is already precarious, and it may be attacked by the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army at any time.
Normally, Liu Xian thinks that Yangshi County can still defend the city. However, now it seems that it is really a bit of a suspense. Because among the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army, although they are only part of the Montenegrin Yellow Turban Army, there are only tens of thousands of people. However, there are more generals who have come, at least there are a lot of Yellow Turban Commanders, and these Yellow Turban Commanders, their current military generals have basically reached the realm of second-rate military generals.
Not to mention anything else, Zhang Niujiao himself, as well as Chu Feiyan, Yang Feng, bitter cockroaches, etc., these yellow turban commanders are here. If they all participated in the siege war, regardless of their safety, and led people to attack the city, then once they were allowed to kill the city, then no one could really defeat them, at least there were not so many generals of the same level in Yang County to fight against them.
Now in Yang's County, there is only Huang Wudie as a real second-rate general. In addition, it is Zhang Ning, who is at the peak of the third-rate generals, but Zhang Ning is not easy to appear in front of those Yellow Turban Qu Shuai who know her. Needless to say, other people are not even real quasi-military generals, it is Huang Xu, he has not fully recovered yet, and it is basically not easy to move.
The reason why Yang's County is in danger is mainly based on the comparison of the generals on both sides. In addition, even if the soldiers of the ordinary Yellow Turban Army attacked the city, it still made the current defense of Yangshi County feel a little difficult.
Liu Xian thought at this time that he had to change his strategy, and if he couldn't slowly consume the strength of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro as planned, he could only force a surprise attack.
But before these actions, Liu seemed to have to deal with the Yellow Turban Army who planned to raid Liulin Village.
It just so happened that the spies came to report that the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army was preparing to cross a detachment of men and horses.
Liu Xian immediately led more than 1,000 people and horses who stayed in Liulin Village to rest, and rushed to the river.
Of the more than 1,000 horses, seven or eight hundred were archers.
When Liu Xian led his men and horses to the bank where the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro crossed the river and landed, their two or three thousand men and horses also happened to land.
Huang Zhong was also waiting for Liu Xian at this time.
"Your lord, you're here, it's just right that you can attack them now."
"How many of them came this time?" Liu Xian was not in a hurry, and asked Huang Zhong first.
"About 3,000 men, just as we had expected." Huang Zhong reported.
"Three thousand people? Good! Just right! ”
The strength of the Yellow Turban Army to cross the river was within Liu Xian's expectations, so Liu Xian felt sure that if these 3,000 men and horses were destroyed, then the Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army that killed Yang County this time would lose a total of 5,000 men and horses.
Liu Xian didn't hesitate any longer, and said to the people behind him: "Listen to my orders, this attack is different from the previous attack." According to the original requirements, your sword and shield bearers are in front, the long soldiers are behind the sword and shield hands, and the archers are behind. Remember, rushing over doesn't need you to go straight to the Yellow Turban soldiers who crossed the river and got to the banks of the river. You only need to rush to a distance of about a hundred paces from those Yellow Turbans, and then hold the position for Ben Gongzi, and let the archers who follow behind shoot a volley of arrows at those Yellow Turban Army, no matter how you shoot them, but you are required to shoot all the arrows of a quiver on your body in the shortest possible time. ”
"Obey the young master's orders!" The soldiers behind Liu Xian replied in unison.
"Lord, what about Huang?" Huang Zhong listened to Liu Xian's orders to those soldiers, and he felt that something was wrong, because in this case, wouldn't their cavalry charge also suffer from the threat of the bows and arrows of his own archers?
"Brother Huang Zhong, don't charge directly to the past first, you first rush to the left flank of our military horses, and when the time is right, you will rush over again, and wipe out the three thousand Yellow Turban troops who crossed the river in one fell swoop." Liu Xian looked at Huang Zhong and said to him.
"Huh? Is this not necessary for Huang to lead the cavalry to charge and kill their formation first? Huang Zhong felt that it was the most suitable way to fight as he had charged the 1,000 Black Mountain Yellow Turban Army that had crossed the river earlier, because the Yellow Turban Army that crossed the river was basically infantry, and their cavalry was the nemesis of the infantry.
Strictly speaking, the infantry army was indeed the most afraid of the cavalry's charge. Every time the infantry attacked the cavalry, there were heavy casualties. It can be said that the infantry against the cavalry, before the battle is lost, half of the first loss, sometimes, it can be called slaughtered.
However, nothing is absolute.
This so-called restraint between the arms is actually only relative. The key is to look at the soldiers' fighting spirit and morale, as well as the soldiers' personal abilities.
A cavalry rushes at a super general on foot, in that case, who is the one who will defeat whom?
Also, cavalry also has nemesis, that is, pikemen, halberders, etc.
Cavalry rush, because of the speed, so the impact is extremely strong, the general infantry, it is indeed difficult to resist the impact of the cavalry, often a charge, can be the infantry formation to the scattered.
However, because the cavalry rushed to kill, if they encountered some more calm and composed opponents, against the opponents who had been prepared for a long time, when the cavalry rushed over, they casually held up a long spear diagonally in front of their formation, so that the cavalry who rushed over did not have time to stop, did not have time to turn, and would rush into those spears like suicide.
The cavalry charged, not to mention whether he was prepared or not, but Huang Zhong did not have many cavalry now, only two or three hundred horsemen. And what about the Yellow Turban Army who crossed the river? They have 3,000 men, and 3,000 is a completely different concept than 1,000.
If these two or three hundred cavalry rushed into the Yellow Turban army of 3,000 men, it would be difficult to guarantee that they would have no casualties. It is even foreseeable that no matter how strong Huang Zhong is, he can lead these two or three hundred cavalry to kill all the way through among the three thousand men and horses. However, these cavalrymen, who are not skilled in horsemanship, may lose their lives in the enemy's formation if they are not careful.
Therefore, Liu Xian no longer planned to let Huang Zhong charge with the two or three hundred cavalry. Liu Xian felt that the war could actually adopt some more reasonable and prudent methods, and it was easier to kill the enemy, and it was also better to preserve some of its own strategies.
The cavalry rushes to kill, which itself is a hand-to-hand encounter, as long as it is a close tear, then it is difficult to avoid sacrifice. Liu Xian showed that whether it was the war horse or those cavalry, it was Liu Xian's treasure, and he was reluctant to let them lose their lives easily.
Liu Xian asked Huang Zhong to take his cavalry to the side to respond to the formation, and when the time was right, let his archers shoot a large number of enemy soldiers and disrupt the enemy's formation, so that Huang Zhong could lead people to rush and kill, so that it would be easier to wipe out the Yellow Turban Army that had crossed the river with one blow.
On the side of the Yellow Turban Army of Montenegro, Zhang Niujiao specially ordered the general of the Yellow Turban Qu Shuai Wulu, and he led 6,000 Yellow Turban troops to cross the river and plunder Liulin Village.
Wulu is more cautious by nature, he thinks that Luo Shiqu Shuai, who crossed the river and robbed Liulin Village earlier, has been more than lucky, so it is enough to show that Liulin Village has the strength to destroy Luo City. He asked himself, his strength was similar to that of Luo City, and even a little inferior to Luo City. Therefore, he thinks that he should be careful.
If it weren't for the fact that the sky was about to get dark, and Zhang Niujiao was urging him to hurry, he had people hurriedly get more than 100 and 200 rafts, plus the 100 that he had originally searched. In this way, 3,000 men and horses can cross the Qingshui River at one time.
The reason why he had to cross 3,000 people and horses at one time was that he had seen his 1,000 men and horses destroyed by the military horses of Liulin Village earlier, if his own men and horses were less, it would be difficult to stand even after crossing the river, and if he crossed the river and was destroyed all of a sudden, then it would really be a joke. 、
Therefore, after Wulu saw that he could cross 3,000 people at a time, he let the original remaining 3,000 vanguard troops cross the river. And Wulu strictly ordered them to cross the river, and they were absolutely not allowed to rush towards Liulin Village, but asked them that after crossing the river, they immediately occupied some favorable terrain on the opposite bank, set up a good position, and be on guard against being attacked.
Then, after the second group of their men and horses crossed the river again, they marched to Liulin Village again. Looting the village of Liulin.
Wulu didn't even follow the first batch of people to cross the river, which was also an extra eye for him. He wanted to see if the 3,000 men and horses who crossed the river would be attacked again? And after being attacked, how many people will the other side have? Will he be able to destroy his 3,000 men again? If it is difficult for even 3,000 men and horses to gain a foothold on the other side, then even if he has 3,000 more, it is estimated that it will be enough to choke. This also confirmed that the opponent was difficult, and when the time came, he would have to consider whether he would have to cross the river and plunder Liulin Village.
Just when Wulu was on the north bank, looking at the rafts that had sent the 3,000 men and horses across the river and then returned to the north bank, he was about to give an order to let the remaining 3,000 men and horses board the rafts and cross the river to meet the 3,000 men and horses on the opposite bank.
Liu Xian has already led 2,000 men and horses to kill.
As soon as Liu Xian's men and horses appeared, they were immediately discovered by the guards of the Yellow Turban Army, and they shouted on the spot.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
With a bang, the Yellow Turban Army, which had lined up on the shore, immediately moved in unison and turned in the direction of Liu Xian's troops.
They were indeed very careful and prepared, and this time they crossed the river, and they did not cross the river loosely and without the slightest vigilance, as the men and horses who had crossed the river earlier.
But if you suffer a loss, you will grow wiser, and now they don't dare to do that.
Liu Xianke didn't care whether they were prepared or not, and led his men and horses to kill them violently.
However, just when they thought that Liu Xian would lead his men and horses all the way into their military formation, Liu Xian gave an order, and when they were still about a hundred steps away, the whole army immediately stopped.