Chapter 956: Counterattack on the Battlefield
Just when some bright colors appeared on the horizon, the scouts had already returned.
If it were in the later life, perhaps at such a point in time, most of them would still be nesting in bed, fighting hard with the bedding, and then waiting until the stomach was really hungry, and then reluctantly got up from the bed, went to make something to eat, or simply ordered takeout......
However, now, this kind of life, or such a living habit, is quite far away from Feiqian.
Right now, Fei Qian is leading more than 500 horsemen in the depths of the lone army, such a situation is also absolutely unimaginable for him in the future.
Fei Qian took the water bladder handed over by Huang Xu, poured a few sips, puffed up his cheeks, poured the water in his mouth, washed out the residue between his teeth with the water flow, and then did not spit it out, but swallowed it.
Get used to it.
Eating is very simple, but the food has a lot of calories, adding animal fat, a little salt and sugar, fried wheat millet and so on ground into powder, compacted into a piece of packed in the bamboo tube, when eating can be boiled or directly dry eaten, although not as good as the compressed biscuits in later generations, but in a short period of time can also ensure the heat and sodium ions required by the human body.
Just like getting used to this kind of military life and diet in the Han Dynasty, Fei Qian gradually got used to reasoning and thinking about problems in the way of a commander.
Fei Qian beckoned Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao to his side and said, "...... Xiliang soldiers are erecting pontoon bridges to cross the river...... Wen Yuan, Zilong, what do you think should be done now? ”
Zhao Yun looked at Fei Qian and seemed to understand something, but he didn't say anything.
Zhang Liao behaved more directly, looked back at the road he was coming from, and then turned his head back and said, "What does the prince mean, turn around and clean up these thieves?" ”
Fei Qian smiled slightly: "How?" Can you still fight? ”
Zhang Liao and Zhao Yunjun arched their hands and replied loudly: "Prince, but please give an order!" ”
Fei Qian laughed, turned around and got on the war horse, and went to the front of the team's array, Huang Xu and the other flag-holding guards also followed closely, Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun glanced at each other, and hurriedly got on the horse to follow.
Every soldier involuntarily turned his head to look at Fei Qian, looking at the commander under the tricolor banner.
In the era of cold weapons, the morale of the army was often a very important combat factor. Even in later generations, it is not uncommon for a dozen soldiers to chase after and drive away opponent soldiers who are several times or even more than ten times more combative.
Retreating all the way like this, being chased by Li Dao, although it will be relatively safe now, it will actually cause some damage to the morale of the entire team......
Fei Qian sat on his horse, looked around, pulled out the long sword at his side, and slashed it to one side in the air. The long sword flashed in a dazzling light in the morning light.
"We are the men of the state, we are wolves on this land, not cattle and sheep!" Fei Qian shouted at the soldiers, "In the past two days, I have been dragged all the way from Gaolu to here, these Xiliang thieves are not annoying, I am annoyed!" Some people say that the border army of the Han Dynasty has always been the elite of Liang! And now, I want to say, Xiliang soldiers are no longer good, the whole world! Only we and other soldiers are the elite of the big man! ”
"Oooo Hearing Fei Qian's words, all the soldiers couldn't help but raise their swords and spears in their hands, waving them towards the sky, and let out a burst of shouting.
"We retreated before, not because we were afraid of this group of Xiliang thieves, but because we felt that they all belonged to the same border army, and it was not easy for everyone to ......" Fei Qian opened his eyes and said seriously, "But these thieves are not endless!" We are not so easy to bully, and now it's our turn to give these Xiliang thieves some color! ”
"All on board! Let's go! ”
A glimmer of bright color on the horizon became more and more obvious, reflecting a red and red morning glow.
The Feiqian cloak fluttered high in the morning breeze, even though he had not slept all night, but under the effect of adrenaline, he was still in good spirits.
Under the leadership of Li Dao, the Xiliang soldiers hurried all day and all night, even if it was one person and two horses, the degree of loss in the process of pursuit was relatively small, but after all, people's energy is limited, so this node is also the time when they need to recover their strength.
In addition, although the pontoon bridge is more convenient and does not need to be unloaded to pass, how huge can the pontoon bridge be built in one night? How many people do you pass through a performance?
After the description of the scout, Fei Qian almost knew the general shape of the pontoon bridge built by Li Wei, which was the simplest bridge based on the raft, with three or four rafts as the base, and then the rest of the wood was used to connect these rafts, of course, the width of the pontoon bridge was at most about one and a half wide, because the wider the pontoon bridge whether it was the consumption of materials or manpower, it would be greatly increased, and the width of one and a half horses would be about the same for one-time use.
Although it is said that it is a counterattack by the Hui army, it does not mean that Fei Qian must have an absolute advantage, because both sides have been galloping for a long time, and the consumption of men and horses is the same large.
However, it is also the best combat opportunity of the moment.
Because unless you go north to the mountain range, there really aren't many places in this area that can be used to snipe Li Dao. Li Wei thought that he would only escape, and he would not have much preparation, just in time to strike suddenly!
Taking advantage of the morning light, when Fei Qian and the others returned to the frustrated water, they bumped into the scout sent by Li Dao head-on!
It was not very bright, so the smoke and dust were not obvious, and when the two sides heard the sound of horses' hooves like drums, they realized that they were already face to face.
Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao rushed to the front of the entire team, like two sharp knives, seeing the scouts sent by Li Dao, without waiting for Fei Qian to issue the order, they had already raised the horse speed to the highest in an instant, like an arrow from the string, and rushed forward!
Zhang Liao seemed to grow on horseback, his body was slightly arched, a spear stretched out, and a few spear flowers danced slightly, and all the arrows shot from the opposite side in a panic were bounced away, and in a blink of an eye, he was approaching the front line listed by Li Dao's scouts!
Zhao Yun was slightly slower than Zhang Liao by half a horse, but he had already taken off the longbow on the side of the war horse on the horse, and the strength of his legs and waist pole was enough to help Zhao Yun sit firmly on the galloping war horse, and at the moment when the war horse took off, Zhao Yun had already shot three arrows in a blink of an eye, and then three arrows in the next instant, and the arrows instantly crossed Zhang Liao and went straight to the first few Xiliang scouts!
The arrows screamed, and the Xiliang scouts who were preparing to meet Zhang Liao were shocked, and couldn't help but dodge sideways, but after all, three people couldn't dodge, one was shot in the face, and the other two were shot between the chest and abdomen.
At this time, Zhang Liao had already let out a loud shout, and the prancing horse rushed straight into the queue of Xiliang scouts!
A Xiliang scout was just about to raise his knife to cut down, Zhang Liao's spear was already half a step faster and poked into the neck of this Xiliang scout, and immediately stabbed half of his neck, the head of the Xiliang scout shrugged and fell to the side, and the blood in the chest cavity gushed out with a "poof" sound along the huge wound under the effect of pressure, like releasing a blood-red firework.
Behind the two of them, the rest of the Bingzhou cavalry had arrived at this time, and they slammed into this Li Dao Xiliang scout detachment, these Bingzhou cavalry had already put on their battle armor this time, so they were no longer in the state of falling with an arrow, and they crashed straight into the queue of the Xiliang cavalry, and in the midst of the neighing of people and horses, they immediately scattered all the formations of the Xiliang scouts.
The detachment of the Xiliang scouts was defeated, and immediately turned around in the diagonal stab, turned around and fled. Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun were about to pursue, but they were pulled by Fei Qian to explain a few words, Zhang Liao took the order, and took two hundred cavalry to bite the tail of the rout of the Xiliang scouts in advance, and chased down.
Li Wei was commanding the Xiliang soldiers to cross the river at this time, and indeed as Fei Qian expected, the pontoon bridge was not spacious, and because the system was too urgent, and because of the conditions, basically it was only bundled together, rubbed against each other by a bubble of water, and there were some breaks and looseness, which further affected the efficiency of crossing the river.
Finally crossed the river to come over some soldiers and horses, and when Li Wei sent a team of scouts to investigate the surrounding situation and the traces of Fei Qian's escape, he didn't expect to bump into Fei Qian and his troops in person.
Li Wei stood under a white curtain on the south bank, surrounded by more than a dozen personal guards.
"Good time!"
Li Wei said viciously, and ordered the cavalry who had already crossed the river to step forward to meet them, and let the soldiers who followed them speed up the speed of crossing the river!
The whining horn sounded, and some of the Xiliang cavalry who had already crossed the river began to assemble and prepare for the attack of the Feiqian troops under the command of Li Dao. Soon, a Marquis of Xiliang roared and led the first two hundred cavalry gathered together to meet him.
The encounter with this Feiqian troops was sudden, and there were a lot of gravel on both sides of this river beach area, it was not impossible to expand, but it was necessary to risk the damage of the horse's hooves, so Li Wei simply prepared to rely on the large number of people to carry Feiqian's troops hard, as long as Feiqian was defeated, it was captured or killed, everything was worth it.
However, the attack of Fei Qian and the other cavalry troops was even more ferocious than Li Wei expected!
Almost in an instant, the Xiliang military horse sent by Li Dao to meet it was like the current hitting the reef, although the water seemed to be extremely turbulent, but the reef did not move, and the Xiliang cavalry only bumped out blood-red foam and blood flowers on it, and it could not shake the cavalry formation of Fei Qian!
Some people may be inconspicuous in ordinary times, but as long as they are on the battlefield, these people are the kings of the battlefield!
It's like Zhang Liao!
In the fierce battle, it seems that the more enemies surround him, the more fierce Zhang Liao becomes!
The spear flying like a dragon accompanied the figure moving on horseback, coupled with the blood gushing out of the surrounding casualties of the Xiliang soldiers, turned out to be like an incomparably red light, stabbing everyone's eyes with pain.
The spear flickered, Zhang Liaofang stabbed to death a Xiliang soldier who rushed head-on, and immediately twisted his backhand, and slammed it on the two Xiliang soldiers who were rushing here on the side, one of them was obliquely connected to the collarbone at the root of his neck, and was cut open with a big hole, and suddenly vented his strength, covering how he couldn't cover the blood gushing out, and he fell down, while the other person grabbed half a step forward, let go of the head of the gun, but was slammed on the shoulder by the back gun, and the whole person fell off the horse sideways, and the person was still rolling. was trampled on the back by a war horse rushing from the back door, and immediately suffocated its half-screams into the soil!
Several Xiliang soldiers who rushed behind, relying on their bodies were also wearing armor, brandishing war knives, and their movements were extremely fast, and before Zhang Liao's spear was withdrawn, they rushed straight into the range of Zhang Liao's middle circle, dodged the ferocious spear, and raised their knives to cut Zhang Liao's body.
Zhang Liao saw that he couldn't put away the gun, so he simply changed his hands to one hand, stretched out his arm and sent it forward, and immediately pierced the chest and abdomen of another person in front of him, but his left hand pulled out the war knife with his backhand, and knocked the horse's belly with his foot, and the war horse willingly gave up half a step to the side, and immediately let the two knives cut from the flank fall short.
Before these two people could put away their swords, Zhang Liao's war knives had already swept out with the strength of the war horse to the flanks, and the two Xiliang cavalrymen who rushed over were suddenly shorter, and the blood rain split their heads and covered their faces.
The hedging of the cavalry was more than ten times faster than that of the previous foot soldiers, and in the blood rain, Zhang Liao had already seen the Xiliang military marquis who led the front line commander in the Xiliang cavalry queue.
As soon as his eyes met, the Xiliang military marquis knew that he couldn't dodge, and suddenly his heart was ruthless, and he roared, and rushed towards Zhang Liao with a slap of the horse!
The military marquis is armed with a knife in one hand, and a somewhat oval riding shield in the other, when he staggered, he saw Zhang Liao stabbing with a gun, and he used the riding shield to hit it outward, and then he swung the knife and slashed, the action was extremely skillful, simple and powerful, obviously it was a move tempered on the battlefield, full of bloody taste.
Zhang Liao is pistol has become a knife and a gun at this time, the flexibility of the spear has decreased a little, the timing of the Xiliang Junhou knocking Zhang Liao's spear is extremely accurate, and the strength is also full, the spear was suddenly knocked open by the Xiliang Junhou at an angle, seeing that the Xiliang Junhou slashed with a knife, Zhang Liao also cut it with the same knife, and the knives of the two sides struck in one place in the air, and the sparks of the "bell" flew everywhere!
Cavalry is different from foot combat, usually the two sides only have a chance to strike at the moment when they meet each other, and then the two sides will stagger because of the speed of their horses, and if they want to continue to fight, they will have to wait for the next opportunity to stagger each other.
Xiliang Junhou is also a veteran on the battlefield, as soon as he saw Zhang Liao's state, he knew that he was not an opponent with his martial arts, so he gave full play to his intuition and experience accumulated on the battlefield, and he was able to resist Zhang Liao's attack, staggered, and exhaled in his heart, and heard his own subordinates shouting in panic on his side!
I don't know when, Zhang Liao has slipped the hand holding the spear, from the original position of grasping the tail of the gun to now holding the head of the spear behind the red tassel, freeing up a long section of the barrel, at the moment when the two horses are staggered, it is a backhand stabbing back!
Although the tail of the spear is not as sharp and sharp as the spear head, there is still a blunt tip in the shape of a triangular shape, and when the Marquis of Xiliang heard the warning from his subordinates, he turned his head sharply, and saw a black shadow coming towards him, and when he wanted to dodge again, it was already too late, and he was stabbed on the forehead by Zhang Liao's gun tail!
At this moment, although it was a noisy battlefield where people shouted and neighed, it seemed that everyone seemed to hear the sound of bone cracking!
The Xiliang army marquis who accompanied the front of this commander to meet Zhang Liao fell down, not only the sword and shield fell into the dust, but also the morale of these Xiliang soldiers who met the attack......
The Bingzhou cavalry behind Zhang Liao was full of momentum, and they all shouted loudly and rushed up in the bloody road that Zhang Liao killed, and on the other hand, after the Xiliang cavalry lost the commanding officer at the front, it fell into courage for a while, and after resisting for a while, it avoided obliquely, and then turned the horse's head and ran back. After all, most of these Xiliang cavalry were Qiang Hu cavalry, and although they were extremely ferocious when they fought a good battle, they were also quite skilled when they ran when they lost a battle.
The Xiliang cavalry that ran back and the second group of cavalry who were ready to go forward saw that they were about to collide in one place, and suddenly stirred up the array of Xiliang soldiers into a little panic......
"Stay with the whole army!" Zhang Liao swept the number of Xiliang soldiers who had already crossed the river in front, raised his spear and stopped his horse.
The white pole on the other side of the river is still shaking, which proves that Li Dao has probably not crossed the river yet, so it is not worth taking too much risk, there are about five or six hundred Xiliang cavalry who have crossed the river, and there are still a large number of cavalry lined up on the south bank, if they get too close, they may be attacked by cold arrows. In addition, there is little room for maneuver on the river beach, if you go too deep, sink headlong, and finally lose the speed of the war horse, it may not be a good choice.
Therefore, Zhang Liao seized this opportunity to get out of the battle, turned back the war horse, and then picked up the corpse of the Xiliang military marquis with a spear, and shouted: "A certain is Zhang Wenyuan of Yanmen!" A special gift, Wangchi Yanghou smiled! ”
As soon as the words fell, Zhang Liao threw the corpse on the spear forward, and a "bang" sound stirred up a large cloud of dust, "If you take another step forward, this will be the end!" Yongliang Border Army, hehe, that's it! Let's go, boys! Then he took his men and turned his horse's head and walked back.
When Zhang Liao's words came, Li Dao, who was under the white dajing, turned pale......