Chapter 37 The pacification of Liaodong is just around the corner
The arrow that injured Xian Yunu was, of course, done by Tai Shi Ci.
Ever since the moment Xian Yunu Leng's arrow attacked Zhou Tai, Tai Shi Ci realized that there were rebel archery masters nearby, so he concentrated on supporting in this direction and trying to counteract.
Tai Shi Ci didn't know that this person was actually the main general of the attacking rebels, and he didn't expect to catch such a big fish.
But with Xian Yu's arrow falling from the horse and the surrounding enemy army in chaos, Tai Shici immediately became keenly acute: I am afraid that he has shot a ruthless character!
He immediately summoned hundreds of soldiers in Bentun, all of whom shouted in unison, spreading false news that the enemy general had been shot and demoralizing the rebels. All of a sudden, the chaos of the rebels intensified, and it took a long time for the rebels to regain stability.
But Dian Wei, who was frantically slashing at the gap, also heard the shouts of friendly troops and saw the chaos of the enemy army, and immediately came to [Bayi Chinese Net] to refresh his spirit, and slashed in the direction of Xian Yunu like a mad tiger.
All of a sudden, the Han army and the rebels actually changed their offensive and defensive positions.
The Han army, which had been holding the gap to the death, took advantage of this gap to divide nearly 100 elites after the last wave of flat-firing crossbow arrows overturned dozens of enemy soldiers at the gap, followed the arrow of Dian Wei to break forward and kill, and directly took the position of Xian Yu slave falling off the horse.
These 100 elite soldiers are all Danyang wrestlers, all equipped with axe shields or hammer shields, and they are powerful and agile. Guan Yu also sent them to Dian Wei and Zhou Tai for this act, in order to use as few soldiers as possible to form a combat effectiveness beyond the enemy's expectations.
The advantages of Danyang soldiers' melee and melee battles were fully exerted in this kind of congested gap offensive and defensive battles.
All of them are a fierce and fearless look of death, charging with shields, protecting themselves with shields at the moment of facing the enemy, jumping violently, and smashing with gravity and hammers.
Those in the rebels who fought with sabers and small wooden shields were often smashed by hammers in an instant, even if they were elite soldiers wearing helmets, they were rammed on the brain by the axe hammer, and they were instantly concussed, and at worst, they were directly burst out of plasma and brain.
The metal helmets of the Han Dynasty did not have the habit of lining cushions, and they could not prevent violent blows from blunt objects. The rebel soldiers who were born in northern Xinjiang had never seen this kind of scene of foot combat and melee, and they were stunned all of a sudden.
Two or three layers of rebels in a row were like rolling soup and fertile snow, and they broke up one after another, and the distance between Dian Wei and Xian Yunu had been rapidly shortened by half, from thirty or forty steps to fifteen steps.
And Xian Yu had just remounted his horse with the help of his personal guards, because his cheek had been cut by a bow and arrow with an extremely long length and about half an inch deep, so his face was covered with blood, and he looked extremely horrible, and he was also very conspicuous in the light of the torch.
How could Dian Wei let the meat in his mouth run away, and immediately asked a few Danyang axe and shield warriors to temporarily help him withstand the pressure on the left and right sides, he put the double iron halberd behind his back, opened the bow left and right and copied out the halberd hanging on his belt, and threw it out with all his might, shooting three or four hardcore rebels who were protecting Xian Yu Nu at once.
While throwing, he also shouted: "The face covered with blood is Xian Yu slave!" Kill the slaves! ”
Dian Wei had a total of ten halberds with him, and he saw that Xian Yu slave was about to ride his horse and escape, so he hurriedly threw the remaining five all at once.
Because most of the other soldiers in the melee next to him were on foot, they couldn't stop the halberds that were aiming at the parabola at a high place.
The two halberds flew into the air after flying a dozen paces away, and one shot at Xian Yunu's scale armor, but because the range was too far to shoot through, it was bounced off. But there were also two that shot at Xian Yunu's war horse without a vest, one on the horse's rump and one on the hind leg.
The halberd that hit the war horse played a key role, and the war horse stood up in pain, neighing fiercely, trying to throw Xian Yunu down. But Xian Yunu, as a Xianbei fierce general, has superb riding skills, even if he is injured, he still can't get rid of it like he grows on horseback.
But the hind legs of the war horse had already been injured by the halberd, and this instinctive man immediately made the hind legs more and more painful, and he neighed and fell to the side.
Rao is Xian Yu slave riding skills, in the moment before the horse fell to the ground, he jumped to the side with all his strength, avoiding being pressed by the front of the war horse, but the left leg and calf were still obliquely pressed under the horse's back, and the tibia was fractured with a "click".
Xian Yunu knew that he couldn't run for a while, so he pulled out his iron saber and round shield, and prepared to fight Dian Wei to the death.
Although the tibia of the left leg is fractured, anyone who has eaten chicken wings knows that there are two bones in the calf (in the wing), and only when the tibia is broken and the fibula is not broken, with the willpower to fight to the death, although you can't walk, you can barely support your body and stand still.
Xian Yunu endured the great pain of the tip of the broken tibia bone piercing into the muscle, and stood still to defend to the death.
The remaining rebel soldiers between him and Dian Wei were quickly killed by Dian Wei as if they were chopping melons and vegetables, and the two approached within five steps, and Dian Wei struck with a double halberd.
"Bell" twice, Xian Yunu rose up with all his strength and blocked the two halberds of Dian Wei, if it weren't for the fact that he was a Xianbei warrior with a large number of people in the Suli Department, it would be absolutely impossible to do this when his face and left leg were seriously injured.
But that's the end of it!
Xianbei warriors, after all, are not good at foot combat, his strengths are riding and shooting. After only two strokes, one of his shoulders was also seriously injured by the iron halberd, and a terrible wound that could be half a foot long and the flesh turned out, and the shield could no longer be held and fell to the ground.
Dian Wei's third halberd in the middle palace went straight and stabbed directly into the slave's heart, but because of the obstruction of the small branch, it could not be directly penetrated through the back.
Dian Wei could only shake it violently from side to side, and then stabbed the other halberd into Xian Yunu's ribs, and the double halberd pulled away violently to both sides, directly tearing Xian Yunu's upper body in half, which was considered to have withdrawn his double halberd.
After such a few delays, Dian Wei was entangled in his weapon, and he was also stabbed in a few wounds by the Xian Yu slave soldiers who fought back like crazy, but Dian Wei didn't care at all, and as the weapon regained his freedom, he quickly killed all those who injured him.
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The Xianbei people are worthy of being the most courageous of the Hus today, and they are not afraid of the Han people's predicament of falling into command confusion because the lord will be killed.
Although the death of Xian Yu Nu made them more chaotic, most of the Xianbei people still fought on their own, relying on their fighting instincts to keep slashing.
Only those Han soldiers in the rebel army were noticeably shaken and unable to work. However, because the Han soldiers were all sent by Zhang Hao to Xian Yunu, and there were other grassroots generals in charge, they did not collapse for a while.
However, as long as they "don't contribute to the work", it is enough.
The frontal melee lasted less than half an hour, and after both sides had suffered heavy casualties, Han cavalry reinforcements arrived on the battlefield much faster than the rebels had expected.
"Yanren Zhang Fei is here, and the thief will die!"
Because Zhao Yun was also responsible for intercepting and killing the liaison between the Liao Tunnel and the enemy army in Xiangping, the task of leading a large force of cavalry to carry out the melee this time was handed over to Zhang Fei.
When Zhang Fei and his 2,000 cavalry troops secretly came from the north bank of the Liao River to intercept the rebels' camp raiders, the rebels finally panicked.
The four fierce generals of the Han army alone had already slashed and killed hundreds of rebels, and their fear had already reached a critical point.
At the same time, in front of the Liao Tunnel camp, Liu Bei and Guan Yu also began to do things as planned.
Guan Yu took 2,000 cavalry, bypassed the Liao Tunnel Fortress, crossed the river from more than ten miles east of the Liao Tunnel Fortress to the north, crossed the river and then detoured back to the direction of the Liao Tunnel Fortress, and when he approached the enemy position, he also lied that it was the Xian Yu slave raiding troops who came back:
"The Han army is prepared! It's not good to rob the camp, let us go back quickly! ”
Although the rebels were not deceived, they could not see clearly in the darkness before dawn, and they could not distinguish whether Guan Yu was friend or foe for a while.
The Liao Tunnel Fortress was originally not a rigorous city, but a long trench and earth wall along the Liao River, with a Yongdao in the middle. After such improvised fortifications were broken through one or two points by the enemy in a chaotic manner, they soon entered a melee.
At the same time, Liu Bei also led the main force of the Han infantry and launched a full-scale assault.
The rebels had less than 15,000 soldiers and horses, and in this night, they had to defend the fortress along the river and the county town of the Liao Tunnel, and 8,000 people had to be assigned to rob the camp.
And they didn't expect that there were more than 15,000 troops left in the front by the Han army, and there were only three or four thousand people on Xiangping's side.
In this way, the division of troops became thinner and thinner, and they took advantage of the chaos to break through, and overnight, the fortress along the river of the Liao Tunnel was completely captured by the Han army.
After the robbery troops were defeated by Zhang Fei, they fled back to the fortress along the Liao River, only to find that they had changed hands, and many Han soldiers had to surrender immediately to save their lives.
In just one night, Xian Yunu died in battle, and the strength in Zhang Hao's hands also shrank by 10,000 people!
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"Thanks to Boya's clever plan, Zhang Hao couldn't help but come to rob the camp, but was taken advantage of by our army! Haha, last night's battle was really enjoyable! ”
When the sky was completely bright, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei came back with their troops, and in the captured Liao Tunnel Fortress, they saw Liu Bei and Li Su, everyone laughed and laughed, and their morale was very high.
"Boya, what's next? Siege the city and storm Liaojiao County? Or will the whole army take Xiangping directly? Liu Bei asked with a relaxed smile.
Li Su smiled: "The overall situation has been decided, it's all right." For the sake of prudence, first surround the county seat of Liaohe Tunnel, anyway, the shipping of the Liaohe River has been completely in the hands of our army, and the counties in the Liaohe River valley will be divided and divided, and Liaoyang, Wangping, Houcheng and other counties will be collected. The total strength of the enemy army should be less than 10,000, and if they are willing to go out of the city to fight, we can't ask for it! ”
At this point in the war, there is no strategy left. Because the enemy doesn't even have the strength to support each other, how can we talk about encircling the point to send reinforcements?
So, what remains are the lackluster, least technical of the two siege battles.
That's not a scene that a strategist like Li Su can play.
To kill Zhang Chun, the rest is "manual work".
"Just Yiboya, divide the troops and take the counties, and then attack the city!" Liu Bei ordered in high spirits.
However, in early July, the county seat of Liaohe was breached, and more than 2,000 rebel soldiers surrendered, and Zhang Hao committed suicide in defeat.
On July 10, more than 20,000 Han troops besieged the most heavily defended Liaodong County, Zhixiangping, and Zhang Chun was left with only the last 5,000 men and the only lonely city.