Chapter 165: What should the one who enters the sun first?
"Hahaha, Zhao Yun'er can actually have a reputation in the world? That's just it, just this kind of martial arts, it must be because the gelding dog guarding the Qingzuo Gate was too weak, so the shaft became famous.
If Xiangguo had already led troops to the capital and let us take the credit for seizing the door and saving the driver, maybe my current position would be higher than that of Captain Changshui! This Zhao Yun was really lucky to get the opportunity to pick up credit. ”
When Hua Xiong pursued Guan Yu, Li Meng took part of Hua Xiong's army, as well as a thousand cavalry from his own headquarters, and continued to pursue Zhao Yun.
And when Zhao Yun saw the Huaxiong flag formation going south and seemed to collide with Guan Yu's flag array, he also realized that Guan Yu was at risk of being besieged, so he had to give up the posture of continuing to ride and shoot guerrillas, and instead let all the Youzhou Raiders prepare for close combat.
Zhao Yun and Guan Yu's pre-war intelligence was not bad, knowing that Li Meng's status was not high, and whether to kill or not to kill would not have much impact on the morale of the enemy's entire army.
Therefore, when the battle was first engaged, Zhao Yun chose to temporarily stabilize his hand in order to better hold the enemy, so as not to kill too hard and scare the enemy away, and rush back to Guan Yu on the way back.
Fortunately, Zhao Yun is the most experienced in Liu Bei's camp, and his martial arts are much higher than Li Meng. So he acted with ease for a while, always giving Li Meng the illusion of "If I work harder, I will have a chance to pick Zhao Yun under the horse".
But in fact, Zhao Yun didn't just hit Li Meng at all, but after feeding Li Meng a little bit, he pretended to take the road to both sides and fled, and when he encountered other warriors and generals of the Xiliang Army, he stabbed him to death within a few moves.
He also pretended to "I ran away to get the way, and this person blocked my way, so I was about to be caught up by Li Meng, so I had to kill."
Who made Li Meng's troops much more than Zhao Yun, this is not an agreed one-on-one heads-up, and others can't beat each other. Of course, Zhao Yun had to cherish the lives of his subordinates, and while dragging Li Meng, he also killed some more hard stubble.
In this way, Li Meng fled while chasing Zhao Yun, and the two of them swept several times in front of the battle front of the two armies, and after Zhao Yun killed dozens of Xiliang warriors, the battlefield on the south side finally broke out into violent cheers, and both armies were slightly distracted and focused on that side, wondering what was going on, but soon saw that the Xiliang cavalry led by Hua Xiong was in chaos and scattered away.
Guan Yujun shouted in unison: "The thief has beheaded Hua Xiong!" ”
Soon, Huaxiong's banner also fell, and there was no doubt about it.
Li Meng's heart trembled, and he was about to take it seriously and consider whether to temporarily withdraw his troops, but Zhao Yun had already stabbed him with a shot.
Li Meng relied on the experience of feeding the move just now to block, but found that his spear seemed to be swung away as if it had encountered a spiral force, and in a trance, he had already been pierced by a shot.
"This ...... Zhao Yun's martial arts, how could he improve so much all of a sudden? Didn't he be chased by me and cut down several miles......" With this unwilling question, Li Meng died of anger.
"Li Mengpiff has been beheaded! Soldiers, kill! Zhao Yun shouted, made a move with a spear, and took the lead in struggling into the Xiliang cavalry formation.
The surrounding Youzhou cavalry witnessed the real victory, and their morale was also high, and they shouted that Huaxiong and Li Meng had been killed while rushing to kill, disintegrating the morale of the Xiliang people.
The turning point of a battle is always the bloodiest time, after a short and fierce fight to the death, about half a stick of incense, the main force of the infantry led by Sun Jian and Xu Huang also arrived and joined the battlefield, and the Xiliang cavalry completely collapsed in an instant.
Relying on the cavalry, they felt that they could not run away if they could not fight, so they completely scattered and fled to the west, only to escape back to the north bank of Yingchuan from the way they crossed the river last night.
"Don't grab the horses, chase them, there will be more horses after a while!" Sun Jian, who came out of breath, tried his best to urge his subordinates forward, and was very dissatisfied with the soldiers who slowed down and tried to snatch the spoils.
Sun Jian also knew in his heart that the pursuit battle was the easiest to produce results, and the infantry marched slowly, if he didn't rush hard for a while as soon as possible, so that his own troops could cover a larger battlefield area, he would not be able to loot much to divide the spoils for a while.
The infantry could only bite the tail of the enemy brigade, and those Xiliang soldiers who fled in all directions could only give way to Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's cavalry.
Although Sun Jian's troops did not have large-scale cavalry, they also had more than 100 scout cavalry, and the generals and senior officers also had war horses, and they could make up about two or three hundred cavalry in total. Sun Jian has always liked to take the lead, and of course he has to rush to the front when he grabs people's heads.
After the death of Hua Xiong and Li Meng, it is impossible for the Xiliang army to organize an undulating counterattack, otherwise if it encounters a Lu Gong-type enemy who will counterattack in the future, although Sun Jian cannot be defeated, it is really difficult to say about the personal safety of the generals.
The pursuit lasted for most of the hour, and it was not until the remnants of the Xiliang cavalry rushed across Yingchuan from several shallow river sections that it was over. Most of the Xiliang cavalry eventually escaped by crossing Yingchuan to the north, but at least hundreds of cavalry at each of the camps were surrounded by groups because of congestion, and surrendered in a formation after a burst of slashing.
Not everyone in the Xiliang army knew how to swim, and about a few hundred defeated soldiers who could swim finally chose to abandon their horses and swim across the river, and the war horses left on the south bank were inevitably captured by Sun Jian and Guan Yu.
In the end, Sun Jian saw that the victory was decided, but Huang Gai sent a messenger from the rear to report to Pegasus, saying that Hu Zhen and Lu Bu had a tendency to cross the river and attack, and begged Sun Jian to return to help as soon as possible. Sun Jian also knew that there was no need for so many infantry on the frontal battlefield, so he divided half of the men to defend about them.
It is estimated that Hu Zhen and Lu Bu will not really force the crossing to be attacked by Bandu when the enemy situation is unknown, that is, to support Hua Xiong, after all, they don't know Hua Xiong's situation yet. As long as he saw that part of Sun Jian's troops was attracted back to the camp, Hu Zhen and Lu Bu should have stopped.
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This is the end of the day's fighting.
When the sun was like blood, the battlefield was almost cleaned, and the loot and prisoners were roughly counted.
Dong Zhuojun's Xiliang Iron Cavalry losses should have been about 4,000 people, but the casualties accounted for less than half of them, that is, about five or six hundred people were killed and more than 1,000 were wounded.
More than 1,000 people were blocked by the river and surrendered when they fled north across the river.
The scattered captured prisoners, and the deserters who went west into the depths of Songshan Mountain, each numbered a few hundred.
Guan Yu and Zhao Yun's 3,000 cavalry suffered a total of more than 500 casualties, but the vast majority were wounded, more than 100 were killed, and dozens of serious injuries were not cured.
This is mainly because the one who resisted the most pressure in the bloody battle just now was Guan Yu's thousand ironclad cavalry, these cavalry had excellent protection, even if they were injured by swords, guns and arrows, most of them could still survive. Many of them were directly knocked off their horses by the blades and guns when they charged, and they broke their tendons and broken their hands and feet, but few of them fell to their deaths wearing iron armor.
The 4,000 infantry brought by Xu Huang basically did not catch up with the tough battle, only thirty or forty people were killed and more than 100 were wounded.
Sun Jian's infantry undertook a lot of pursuit tasks in the cleaning stage of the battlefield, especially in the positional battle near the crossing point, and hundreds of people were killed, and the injured Guan Yu didn't know, only Sun Jian himself had an account.
Considering that there were too many recruits in Sun Jian's department and the quality of the soldiers was low, it was normal for the Xiliang army to jump over the wall and bite back during the siege war.
After settling the losses, the two armies will divide the spoils. Guan Yu and Zhao Yun combined to capture 1,7800 war horses. Sun Jian also captured nearly a thousand horses. Weapons and armor were seized at a similar rate, and in larger quantities. After all, the war horse will die in battle, and the armor can be captured, even if it is a little damaged.
But Guan Yu was very dissatisfied with this result, and there was some friction between the two sides: "Sun Taishou, if there is no cavalry of our army to entangle Huaxiong today, you will not even have a chance to catch up with them and fight with them!" Zilong and I personally risked arrows to kill Hua Xiong and Li Meng, you are just the enemy generals who have been killed and rushed to the battlefield, and you have to take nearly forty percent of the war profits, it is too much to deceive people! ”
Sun Jian couldn't help but retort: "If you kissed the arrow, I didn't risk the arrow?" I also rushed to the front just now, and all three armies can testify, and I only took more than 100 horsemen to dare to chase and kill thousands of fleeing enemies! ”
Thanks to Sun Jian's posture as a pioneer, his aura of dividing things is a little sufficient, otherwise he is really embarrassed to speak.
Guan Yu snorted coldly: "I haven't seen you make any miracle feats." ”
Zhao Yun hurriedly grabbed it, pretending to be in the middle and persuaded: "Sun Taishou, there are some things that must be said clearly, you are also the first soldier, General Guan and I are very grateful, but your seizure and looting is too ugly, some of the horses you have captured are not from the Xiliang Army, but the horses of our army that were killed or injured and fell into the robe!" This has to be robbed, it is inevitable that there will be injuries and discuss Dong's righteousness side by side! ”
Sun Jian was speechless for a while, and hurriedly asked left and right: "Have you taken the horses of the friendly soldiers in Youzhou?" ”
Cheng Pu looked confused, and cooperated to deny: "No, no!" ”
Zhao Yun sneered, he still knew a lot about the difference between the breeds of Youzhou horses and Xiliang horses, and after a little turn in front of the army, he picked out at least a dozen examples, all because of the chaos of the battlefield, after the Youzhou cavalry died and fell from the horse, the horse fell into a state of ownerlessness and was taken away by friendly troops cleaning the battlefield.
The most dangerous thing is that some horses have two hemp rope hoop stirrups! These must all be retrieved before the allies notice this equipment discrepancy!
Sun Jian was caught by Zhao Yuntou is way to distinguish between Youzhou horse and Xiliang horse, and he was immediately a little embarrassed.
This kind of thing is impossible to "spit out as much as the friendly army finds" and calm the situation, at least it is necessary to "pay three for one fake", maybe "ten for fake" is possible.
Sun Jian hurriedly softened his attitude to save face: "That's it, General Zhao, the current capture of your army belongs to your army, and how many war horses your army has killed in battle today will also be compensated for you from the middle line of our army's capture, so that you can first make up the number of three thousand in the old department." You can send someone to pick and choose from my herd, that is always sincere, right? ”
Zhao Yun's troops suffered more than 500 casualties, and at least two or three hundred horses were lost. The most that was mistakenly paid by Sun Jian was only a few dozen horses, and Sun Jian was willing to spit out more than 200 horses, which could be regarded as for the sake of the alliance's righteousness and saving face.
Zhao Yun didn't care too much, and sent a cavalry to carefully inspect all the horses of Sun Jianjun's army, find out all the horses of his own side that might expose the stirrups on both sides, and search for two hundred Xiliang horses, and the matter was over.
Zhao Yun remembered that before he left Chengdu, as early as the beginning of last year, Li Su gave him some reminders and decided to rely on this favor to sell face.
He said to Sun Jian: "Sun Taishou, forget it today, I will get back more than two hundred horses, and I don't want you more." Originally, even weapons and armor had to be redistributed. For the sake of your first attack, you have a righteous name, and we don't care about you.
However, you should also be able to see that our army is a benevolent and righteous army of the king, and I would like to make an agreement with you about a gentleman who will divide the profits of the war in the future. ”
Sun Jian still has a good face, seeing that Zhao Yun gave him face in and out of his words, he didn't take it seriously, and said arrogantly: "General Zhao, please speak!" ”
Zhao Yun took a deep breath: "Last year, before I was about to leave Sichuan, Li Suzeng, the general of Zhonglang, said to me: Dong Zhuo has been wild in beastliness and human nature since he robbed the Son of Heaven and excavated the imperial tomb, and it is possible to do anything.
Therefore, when it comes to discussing Dong, he has always advised General Zhengxi not to participate in person, otherwise if Dong Zhuo wants to burn the jade one day, I am afraid that the east and west capitals and the coercion of heaven will become Dong Zhuo's victims.
This time we attack Luoyang, Dong Zhuo may not give up Luoyang. It's just that based on Li Zhonglang's analysis of Dong Zhuo's recent behavior, he may cause even more damage before he leaves. I hope that once there is such a trend at that time, Sun Taishou will not care about the looting of the war, but move forward side by side with our army, grab the disaster disaster, and whoever rescues it will belong to whomever it is. ”
Sun Jian heard Zhao Yun say so righteous and awe-inspiring, he was squeezed down the moral steps and couldn't help but question: "If this is the case, of course, to save the people and eliminate disasters, I Sun Jian can still distinguish the importance of this point!"
However, with all due respect, most of the people of Yin in Henan have been relocated, and the treasury of the imperial palace, the rich people, and the treasures of the imperial tombs have also been looted by Dong Zhuo. Could it be that even the house and palace were demolished and burned down? ”
Zhao Yun smiled pitifully and bitterly: "With Dong Zhuo's cruelty, it may not be like this." ”
Sun Jian: "Okay, I promise you - General Guan, what General Zhao meant just now also represents your meaning, right?" Don't put forward any new conditions when the time comes. ”
Guan Yu stroked his hair proudly: "Zilong agreed, of course, even if I agreed." Zilong's discussion was taught by Boya, and most of my eldest brother thought the same way. ”
Sun Jian: "Okay, that's what you all mean, why should I be a villain in vain, this matter is decided." Today, it is just to annihilate the enemy's 4,000 cavalry and kill Huaxiong Li Meng, and now when it comes to the conditions for entering Luoyang, it may not be too early to laugh and get too carried away. Let's think about how to defeat Lu Bu, Hu Zhen, and Fan Choucai first, and return to the camp! ”
The two armies marched slowly and returned to the camp in southern Sichuan. The remnants of the cavalry of Huaxiong's division on the north bank have also fled back to the Hu Zhen camp one after another.
After today's First World War, the comparison of the remaining strength of the two armies has become 24,000 against more than 33,000 people, and the northern army has also lost two generals, and everything has to be considered in the long run.