Chapter 71: Cutting the Taishou Sacrificial Pill
"Han Suijun is ready to retreat! General Zhao and General Zhang had already accelerated his advance and was attacking Han Sui with Huangfu Song. ”
Liu Bei walked slowly with the main rear team, and there were nearly ten miles away from the battlefield, when he heard the sound of killing in front of him, the dust was rolling, and the scouts who probed the situation of the front army were also returning in an endless stream.
"Speed up, run! Don't spare your physical strength, chase the dead and chase the north, and fight here! ”
Liu Bei also didn't care about the poor riding skills of the rear team and the slower march than the front army, so he strictly ordered to speed up immediately.
He was able to make up 30,000 horses under his command, but the main force of the rear army of 20,000 people was not cavalry, and the quality of the horses was also poor, so he could only ride horses and rush without sprinting, which was regarded as "horse infantry".
In normal hard combat, these troops would not have arrived directly on horseback, as that would easily cause confusion and be captured by the enemy in the event of a retreat. But since it was a pursuit battle in which the enemy had already retreated, it didn't matter.
After 20,000 people approached the battlefield, a part of the troops were assigned to guard the horses, and the others charged in formation.
It took nearly a quarter of an hour to get mixed up, and the main forces of the rear army finally arrived at the battlefield. The strategists around Liu Bei, such as Li Sulu and Zhuge Jin, also rode horses to follow the banner of the Chinese army.
Even Li Su, who had seen the big battle, saw such a grand scene for the first time - along both sides of the Weishui River Valley Plain, the mountains were full of cavalry assaults, chaotic strangulation, and the entire battlefield of the two armies combined, estimated to be close to 200,000 people!
Flesh and blood were flying everywhere, stumps and arms were broken, fighting for the aid of the intestines, and screaming miserably.
"Who dares to say that Han Sui is weak? When fighting against Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, the sum of Juchun's troops was more than Han Sui, but it was inevitably broken by our army in several battlefields and batches, and more than 100,000 people never gathered together. It's because I'm preconceived, and I don't care when I see that the history books say it lightly, and Han Sui was broken by Huangfu Song and Dong Zhuo. ”
Li Su secretly thought in his heart, and made a review for his own darkness under the lamp.
This is also a fierce rival in the world.
Lu Su and Zhuge Jin couldn't help but tremble slightly. There's no way, the age is there, Lu Su is eighteen, Zhuge Jin is sixteen, and they haven't seen the world in military terms after all. Even if this battle is just to observe, it can also allow them to absorb valuable life experience and be more in awe of the danger of the soldiers.
It's rare that you don't have to be the main attacking force, and you can still watch this kind of big scene throughout the whole process.
Even Liu Bei, who has fought for five years like this, will feel quite rewarding.
After looking at it for a while, Liu Bei personally judged the situation: "Is the enemy in the besieged camp east of Chencang City surrounded by Zilong and Yu Fuluo?" Let's hurry up and charge the whole army to surround and eat this part of the enemy army! They have the Qinling Mountains in the south, and the road around the west of the city has also been blocked by Huangfu Song's troops out of the city, and there is Weishui in the north, and we just annihilate this enemy! ”
Originally, today's Chencang City was built on the south bank of Weishui, due west of Chencang City is the Weishui River Valley that flows out of Longshan, and the south is the Sanguan Road leading to Hanzhong, and both sides of the Sanguan Road are Qinling Mountains.
It is precisely because this is the corner between Longshan and Qinling that when the rebels from the west want to encircle Chencang City, the part of the troops that surround the east of the city is the deepest behind the enemy.
As long as the troops in Chencang City dared to come out to intercept and cut off the gentle slope between Chencang City and the Qinling Mountains on the east side of Sanguan Gukou, which was only a few miles wide, then the troops besieging the east of the city would be cut off from retreating.
If it was usual when Han Sui's troops were far superior to Huangfu Song, Han Sui was certainly not afraid of this kind of truncation, because even if the friendly army was surrounded by Huangfu Song for a while, Han Sui would be sure that he would force Huangfu Song back again in the field battle.
But now, Han Sui's main force was already in a state of secretly retreating in batches because he found out that Liu Bei's reinforcements were large the day before yesterday. These besieging troops left behind in the east of Chencang City were originally bluffing to buy time for the main force to retreat.
Therefore, when Huangfu Song cut off their back road, Han Sui would no longer come to the rescue from the south bank, at most he would only respond on the north bank of Weishui - Chencang's city was on the south bank, so the south bank was easy to block, and the north bank was open and could not be blocked.
Seeing that there were still more than 20,000 rebel troops on the southeast bank of the city, they were firmly surrounded, and their only way out was to rely on a small number of ferries in the army, or even the timber removed from the demolition of the camp to swim across the Wei River to escape, or even swim directly across the Wei River three or four hundred meters wide!
Seeing this opportunity, how could Liu Bei not let Zhao Yun and Yu Fuluo attack quickly and fiercely, and the rear army also followed at full speed, driving all the enemy troops down to Weishui and drowning!
There were more than 50,000 Han troops on the battlefield in Weinan, and the number of rebels was only half of that of the Han army, and there was a morale punishment of being surrounded and abandoned by friendly troops, how could this withstand it?
"The rear army is on its back! Form a semicircle along the riverbank to buy time for the ferries and the brothers who swim across! Can't mess around! No one can run away if it's messed up! "In the formation of Han's army, a sword-wielding general desperately restrained his subordinates and wanted to cross the Weishui in an organized and orderly manner, but the casualties of his men were increasing with the times.
"Who is that? The banner in the army is written with the word Li, is there a general surnamed Li under Han Sui's account? ”
Liu Bei supervised the battle for a while, and then noticed that the rebels were still trying to stabilize, and couldn't help asking.
It's also to blame that he came in a hurry, and he hasn't remembered the enemy situation yet.
However, Lu Su immediately took out the briefing on the encampment of the enemy army when Zhao Yun reported back from the military meeting the day before yesterday, checked it, and said: "There are three rebels in the east of the city, according to the news of General Zhao's inquiry, the only one surnamed Li is Li Shen Li Xiangru - this person was originally the Taishou of Longxi County appointed by the imperial court, in the autumn of the previous year, after Han Sui killed Beigong Boyu, he approached Longxi, Li Shen did not resist, and went directly from the thief. ”
Liu Bei shook his head hatefully: "Li Xiangru, Li Xiangru, as the imperial court guard, he actually took the initiative to be a thief without a fight, then he can't be pardoned, continue to attack, capture Li Shen and reward him with twenty gold, please Your Majesty kill the public!" ”
Liu Bei got the emperor's false festival privilege, and all officials who were lower than Taishou could be punished if the battle was unfavorable and wrong. Taishou can't be killed directly, but since this Li Shen has rebelled from a thief, it doesn't hurt to kill him.
Just killed a former imperial court Taishou Yu Liwei.
The military order penetrated to the front, and the troops attacked more and more fiercely.
However, the enemy troops were under pressure and fled more and more frantically, and for a time there were thousands of people on boats, on wood, and even swimming in the Weishui at the same time.
Liu Bei saw that it was no problem to destroy the enemy and win all, but he crossed the river and ran away a little too much, and he was also a little anxious. In this battle, he also hoped to show his face in front of Huangfu Song and temporarily have a good relationship with Dong Zhuo by the way.
Why don't you pick up more military merits that can be picked up for nothing, the first level is sent to Luoyang, and fortunately, there is a wave of people in the center.
"Our army has only Winged on the North Shore? Will the rest of the troops have time to cross to the north shore to intercept it? Liu Bei couldn't help but ask.
Lu Su was familiar with logistics and equipment scheduling, and hurriedly replied: "Most of the ships accompanying the army are in the Wuzhangyuan camp, and I didn't expect to cross the river when I went out to fight today. ”
Liu Bei nodded, it seemed that he could only count on Zhang Fei on the other side of the river to give a little strength and kill the enemy soldiers who had just landed on the beach.
Although Zhang Fei only brought 5,000 Youzhou Han cavalry, as long as the heavy cavalry rushed to kill the enemy troops who had just climbed ashore and had not yet lined up, they would kill as many as they could.
Liu Bei's order was conveyed through the flag, and soon reached Zhang Fei on the other side of the river, three or four hundred meters wide on both sides of the Wei River, waving the big flag can still see the flag clearly.
"Big brother has an order, not a single person from the south bank is allowed to go ashore, and all of them will be killed by me!" Zhang Fei became more and more excited, and energetically held the snake spear to personally patrol and hunt along the riverbank, and after a while, he killed Han Suijun, who was originally guarding the bank, and then began to hunt those who had just swam by ferry and swim without business.
In particular, the soldiers of the Han Sui Army who swam across the river swimming or holding the camp logs, because of the impact of the Weishui current, they did not go ashore on the opposite bank when they crossed the river, but would be washed downstream. The slower you swim and the longer you spend in the river, the more you will be washed further downstream.
And Liu Beijun was downstream, Han Suijun was upstream, those Han Suijun soldiers who swam slowly were simply throwing themselves into the net, and as soon as they went ashore, they found that Zhang Fei's cavalry was waiting on the left and right in front of them, and they surrendered on their knees one after another, suffering heavy losses.
However, Han Sui was not stupid, after being captured by Zhang Fei for two or three thousand prisoners in this situation, Han Suijun finally reacted.
From the side of the main camp of Han Sui's army in the west, tens of thousands of horses were separated, rolling in, heading straight for Zhang Fei, trying to occupy more depth on the north bank to meet the friendly troops on the south bank to cross the river.
Han Sui obviously also saw it: the main battlefield on the south bank was already the home of Huangfu Song and Liu Bei, and no matter how many people invested, they couldn't beat it. But Liu Bei was not mentally prepared for a decisive battle on the north shore.
There are only 5,000 cavalry of Zhang Fei on this side, as long as Zhang Fei is forced back, the remnants of the army on the south bank will still be saved, and they can cross the river and escape. It's nothing more than being chased down the river by Zhao Yun in the final stage, but it's better than letting the whole army of that partial division be wiped out.
"Zhang Feixiu is leaving, Jincheng Yan Xing is here!" A general of Han Sui's army, with more than 10,000 cavalry and more rear infantry, came to Zhang Fei with all his might.
"Good time!" Zhang Fei had never been to Kansai, nor had he heard of Yan Xing's name.
In the past few years, he has followed Liu Bei to fight in the land of Yan and Zhao, and he thinks that he has seen enough and is well-informed, and even the Hu chiefs under Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun, who are known as fierce generals, have never seen anyone who can fight him alone, and Zhang Fei is naturally full of confidence to meet him.
Cavalry against cavalry, the two armies were hedged at full speed in a wedge formation, and the battle was fought to one place with a "bang".
"Bell~Bell~" The spears intersected, Zhang Fei and Yan Xing were shocked, and their arms were slightly numb.
Only then did he pay close attention to his opponent, that Yan Xing was also an eight-foot-tall fierce man, and he also had a wild beard, like a short steel needle, casting armor, and his whole body was full of momentum, and even his face and arms could be seen with old marks, and he was obviously also a battle-hardened body.
"Such an unknown general in the Liangzhou army actually has such martial arts. Again! Zhang Fei was aroused by the ferocity and turned over to kill back.
After the initial onslaught, the casualties of the two armies were too heavy, and they also changed to a horizontal sweep formation, rather than a needle-to-needle frontal attack on Maimang, so that they could disengage at any time.
After all, whoever fights is not here to deliberately seek death, and when the cavalry generals are about to fight in front of the battle, they often invariably restrain the troops in this way.
This is not considered to be the end of the two armies and only look at the generals heads-up, but it can also actually play an equivalent effect of facilitating the heads-up of the victory and defeat first, and it is only easy to appear when the commanders of the two armies are very confident in their martial arts.
In the short time between skimming and fighting, Zhang Fei and Yan Xing had already hedged back and forth six or seven times, and they had made more than 20 rounds. After rushing over, the two of them also killed more than ten cavalry members of the enemy's rear team, Zhang Fei seemed to have a slight upper hand, but he could not take Yan Xing.
Zhang Fei was a little anxious, and when he hedged against Yan Xing for the eighth time, he felt that he had thoroughly figured out Yan Xing's strength, speed, and accuracy, and decided to take a little risk.
"Drink!" Zhang Fei clamped the snake spear under his armpit with one arm to seek a longer attack distance and explosive power, and controlled the reins with the other hand, ready to stab the opponent at any time and hide in the stirrups of the cat's waist to dodge.
Unexpectedly, Yan Xing was also a knowledgeable person, and he actually changed his hand to attack as far as possible and stab the other party to death before being stabbed to death by the enemy.
This is already a life-and-death situation with no advance or retreat, not like a knight duel in the east who is single-handed, but a knight duel in the west.
"Die!" Zhang Fei's snake spear shot out, and he was able to reluctantly adjust the direction of the stab after making a move, and even Yan Xing's dodge angle was calculated.
"Unless he throws up his gun and jumps off his horse and loses, he will die!" Zhang Fei smiled in his heart.
However, to Zhang Fei's surprise, Yan Xing actually did not retreat but advanced, his weapon was slightly shorter than Zhang Fei's Zhangba snake spear, but the gap was not big, and this Yan Xing's ape arm, the hand length was only slightly shorter than Liu Bei's, which could make up for the disadvantage in this regard.
"He's trying to make a deal with me!" Zhang Fei and Yan Xing had to instinctively give way to the side at the last moment.
"Puff~Puff~"
"Uh-"
Zhang Fei was shocked to find that a long but not deep hole was cut under his ribs by the blade of the gun, and he was immediately drenched in blood, and several pieces of black iron scales were also shattered from the armor on his body. Yan Xing's spear also landed on the ground after striking him.
And Zhang Fei's snake spear was nailed to Yan Xing's shoulder socket, and the weapons of the two were originally stabbed straight into each other's hearts, but in order to protect themselves, they retreated a little, and they lost their heads.
Zhang Fei just stabbed the other party in the shoulder, Yan Xing was vigorously stabbed and fell off the horse, but it was not fatal, the cavalry around him frantically dismounted to help, blocked the rush of Zhang Fei's cavalry, and carried the unconscious Yan Xing back with all hands and feet.
Zhang Fei felt dizzy in severe pain, and his snake spear was also pierced on Yan Xing's shoulder and was taken away by the enemy, so he had to copy out the short weapon he had with him, a copper mace, and tried his best to protect himself and retreat to recuperate from his injuries.
Although the cavalry of Yan Xingjun was more numerous, the main was picked out by Zhang Fei and fell unconscious, and his morale was frustrated, and he did not dare to pursue.
The battle for the north bank fell into a stalemate, and the news of Zhang Fei's injury soon spread to the main battlefield on the south bank.
But at the same time, after giving up the "anvil" on the north bank, Liu Bei further increased the intensity of the general attack on Zhao Yun and others, who played the "iron hammer" on the south bank, and tried to reduce the time for the remnants of the enemy to cross the river in formation.
A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Yun finally completely penetrated the remnants of the enemy's military formation on the south bank, and directly killed the river bank, cut Li Shen's banner in the chaos, and also killed the flag formation. In the end, nearly 10,000 enemy troops who had not had time to cross the river saw that the main general had also been captured, so they had to surrender all of them.
During the whole process, thousands of enemy troops were blocked, drowned, and covered behind to advance Weishui, and the shores of Weishui in this section were temporarily dyed red.
About seven or eight thousand enemy soldiers fled to the north bank under the support of Yan Xing's army, and withdrew with the large army of Han Sui's army.
"How's Wing's injury?" Liu Bei didn't have time to care about the prisoners and the booty, so he hurriedly sent a ship that had just been captured from the enemy, and asked people to immediately bring Zhang Fei back from the north bank.
He personally confirmed that Zhang Fei only had flesh and rib injuries, and did not hurt his internal organs, so he was relieved.
"Big brother, I'm fine, just raise it for a month, I didn't expect that Yan Xing to be so fearless of death and failed to block the enemy army from crossing the river. I stabbed the snake spear in Yan Xing's shoulder socket, and it looked like I had to build a new one. Zhang Fei was not even in a coma, and after being bandaged, he lay on the stretcher to rest, and he was very conscious.
Liu Bei was relieved again and again: "It's okay if the person is fine, when you are injured and you are injured, you will find another famous craftsman for your brother to find a high-quality iron and then build it." ”
After condolences to Zhang Fei, Liu Bei was also angry in his heart. His psychological quality has always been relatively good, but if anyone hurts his brother, he will run wild, so he immediately ordered Zhao Yun to escort Li Shen up.
Li Shen walked forward on his knees while holding his legs and begging for mercy: "General Zhenxi's life!" I will surrender, I will surrender. I was originally an official of the imperial court, and I was also too guarded! It was Han Sui's great power and the imperial court did not rescue our Liangzhou counties, so I had no choice but to be a thief. ”
Liu Bei angrily carried Li Shen's armor collar: "Don't be clever in your words!" You don't know that you took the initiative to surrender to the enemy before Han Sui attacked! As a court guard, how can you not surrender without a single arrow! Be a backbone for the general!
What's more, I heard that you were a thief just to keep your wealth, and after being a thief, you took the initiative to help Han Sui persuade him to surrender elsewhere and recruit soldiers and horses from the court to be a thief. ”
After speaking, Liu Bei threw Li Shen to the ground, and the two pro-soldiers immediately held each other down again.
Liu Bei waved his hand: "Someone!" Please be thrifty! ”
Zhao Yun hurriedly took the Huang Yue that had been supplied in the army.
According to the records of the "Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms", when Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang were in Weishui without fighting, in order to suppress the heart of the generals seeking war, they played a fake appearance to ask for war, and as a result, Cao Rui sent Xin Bi to announce that he was not allowed to fight, and the original text of the "Three Kingdoms" was "Xin Bi resolutely fought against Huang Yue, stood at the camp gate, and said that the one who fought was killed".
This yellow Yue itself is cast from copper, that is, bronze and some gold smelted alloy, the hardness is slightly higher than bronze, and there is a layer of gold on the outside, so it looks golden, but in fact the gold is too soft, and the hardness required to kill people is all provided by the copper inside.
"I am Your Majesty's personal grant of General Zhenxi, fake Jieyue, today I will behead you, the thief of Longxi Taishou! Zilong, you come to execute, behead! ”
"No!" After Zhao Yun promised, he cut off Li Shen's head with an axe in public. A fountain of blood rushed out on the wrapped gold, indescribably weird.
"Let's go, let's go to General Zuo to report the merits!" Liu Bei let out a bad breath and restrained the troops to join Huangfu Song.