Chapter 708: The Fall
The black smoke rising from the sky on the Great Yellow Mountain made Pang Xun in Xuzhou City stunned.
This is a sign of urgency.
At noon, he couldn't sit still anymore, because the black smoke on the Great Yellow Mountain turned into yellow smoke, which was told by Dong Liang, the guard of the Great Yellow Mountain, that the Great Yellow Mountain could not hold on and urgently needed support.
If the Great Yellow Mountain is breached, then the triangle will go to one of them, and the previous arrangement will be equivalent to all of them being lost.
"Zhu Youzhen is lonely." Pang Xun's face turned pale, "Then I will fight him to the death." Sent the order down, exhausted the elite in the city, and aided the Great Yellow Mountain. At the same time, he gave Liu Xuanling of Kuishan and asked him to lead the defenders of Kuishan and fight Zhu Youzhen's troops left and right with me. ”
The gate of Xuzhou was wide open, and thousands of cavalry took the lead in pouring out of the city, and after that, nearly 10,000 foot soldiers also lined up and marched rapidly in the direction of Dahuangshan.
The straight-line distance between the two is not far, standing at the head of Xuzhou City, you can clearly see the big Yellow Mountain in the distance, but it still takes a lot of time to really walk.
On Kui Mountain, Liu Xuan received a military order from Pang Xun, and after saying that he obeyed the military order and immediately led the army down the mountain and sent the messenger away, Liu Xuan found Zhou Qun.
"Brother Liu, have you made a decision?"
"Pang Shuai has attacked!" Liu Xuandao: "Just now the messenger said that Dahuangshan is in an emergency. ”
Zhou Qun smiled proudly: "I told you a long time ago that the Great Yellow Mountain can't be defended." Now what do you say? If you must follow Pang Xun, I have nothing to say. ”
"I've made up my mind." Liu Xuan said: "We don't go to Dahuangshan, we go to seize Xuzhou City." Now that the city of Xuzhou is empty, Pang Xun has come out of the elite as much as possible. ”
"Wonderful! This trick made Pang Xun have no place to retreat. Zhou Qun gave a thumbs up.
Kuishan's 5,000 soldiers and horses, under the leadership of Liu Xuan, went straight to Xuzhou City.
In Dahuangshan, the situation has also taken a sharp turn for the worse.
Dong Liang, the guard of Dahuangshan, is not an incompetent person as Liu Xuan said, but he really didn't expect that someone could climb up from the north slope, in fact, he still put a whole place on the north slope to guard and sentry.
When Chen Fu led 500 people to raid the main village, although Dong Liang was stunned, he still divided part of the men and horses in time, and blocked Chen Fu's headquarters in a corner of the military village.
The enemy who sneaks up is two.
When Dong Liang figured out this fact, it was actually over. If Chen Fu attacked in, he still had some spare strength to deal with, but when Tian Guofeng also came in, he was really helpless, at this time, it was when he was the weakest, and most of the centaurs were in front to deal with Zhu Youzhen's onslaught regardless of damage. The rest of his reserve men were encircling and suppressing Chen Fu, and when Tian Guofeng came in, most of the entire military fortress was almost completely undefended.
In a short period of time, most of the military village caught fire and burned. In desperation, Dong Liang's only thing to do was to retreat, and after allowing the two groups of enemies to converge, he occupied the northwest part of the stockade, while he retreated to the southeast part of the stockade.
At this time, he needs to deal with attacks from two directions.
It was at this time that the yellow fireworks were lit.
Dong Liang felt that he could last until dark at most.
But the reinforcements from Xuzhou City, the cavalry only needed less than an hour to arrive here, even if they were foot soldiers, if they advanced lightly, they could rush to Dahuangshan before dark to support themselves.
The raging fire on the mountain made Zhu Youzhen excited, and Tian Guofeng and Chen Fu finally succeeded.
With an order, Shi Hong carried more than a dozen boxes and placed them in front of the army, and when the boxes were opened, the yellow and clear copper coins and the silver of the white flowers dazzled everyone's eyes.
"Take the Great Yellow Mountain, these are all yours!" Zhu Youzhen said sharply.
Cao Bin finally waited for Pang Xun.
At this time, he had only 5,000 people.
3,000 cavalry, 2,000 foot soldiers.
It's just that these 5,000 people are all the most elite part of the Xuanwu army. The 3,000 cavalry he brought out from Chang'an, and Zhu Youzhen brought 3,000 elite infantry soldiers from Bianzhou, of which 1,000 followed Zhu Youzhen to Dahuangshan, and the remaining 2,000 were handed over to himself.
And Pang Xun sent troops this time, at least no less than 20,000 people.
But Cao Bin doesn't feel like he's at a disadvantage.
The 5,000-person Xuanwu Army has been fighting all these years, and it is all out of blood and fire, Wuning Army, has it fought in the past ten years? At most, suppress the bandits, those soldiers who were the most capable of fighting back then are now afraid that they are no longer in the army. A batch of raw melons and eggs, how can they be the opponents of these iron-blooded soldiers under their command.
In the face of the surging Wuning cavalry, Cao Bin brazenly ordered 3,000 cavalry to launch a hedge, while 2,000 foot soldiers formed a phalanx, followed by the cavalry, and slowly advanced.
Faced with an enemy with an absolute numerical advantage, Cao Bin did not defend, but chose to attack.
Seeing the proud Cao Bin arranging his troops in such a formation, Pang Xun was first overjoyed, thinking that the opponent was self-defeating, if the opponent formed a formation and held on, he might not be able to break the enemy, but if it was an attack, his own advantage in numbers, even if it was a redemption, he could make the opponent lose a big loss.
But as soon as the two armies took over, he was dumbfounded.
It was only at this time that he reacted, the two armies were fighting, and at this order of magnitude, the number of people did not seem to determine everything. The cavalry led by Cao Bin himself was like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, defeating the Wuning cavalry to the ground, and actually forcing these scattered Wuning cavalry to roll backwards towards Pang Xun's headquarters infantry formation.
"Formation, formation!" Without waiting for Pang Xun to order, the experienced officers under his command began to shout one after another, and the drums and trumpets in the army sounded in unison, signaling the cavalry to go around the formation.
The scattered Wuning cavalry finally maintained the last bit of rationality, they bypassed the infantry formation and retreated to the rear, but Cao Bin's cavalry did not take advantage of the situation to attack the Wuning infantry who had completed the military formation, but was dozens of steps away in front of the formation, played a whirlwind and then retreated. However, the rain of arrows that flew up in the Wuning army was basically empty.
The cavalry retreated to protect the two wings, and the two thousand foot soldiers marched forward with the drums of war.
Two thousand men launched an attack on the 15,000 infantry of the Wuning Army.
This situation made Pang Xun almost angry.
In the banner of the order, there are three thousand Wu Ning guards on the left and right wings, dozens of steps forward, forming a concave military formation with the headquarters, after a pause, dozens of steps forward, and then slowly squeezing towards the middle, the Wu Ning cavalry who came back to the soul finally had some appearance, divided into a number of ranger teams, and walked back and forth outside the infantry army formation, guarding the side rear, so as not to be attacked by Cao Bin's cavalry from the rear.
"That's a little bit of fun!" Cao Bin laughed. The two thousand foot soldiers changed from a phalanx to a circular formation, forming an impermeable defensive circle, and although it was surrounded on three sides, it was not afraid. The 3,000 cavalry also dispersed and started a guerrilla fight with the Wuning cavalry on the periphery.
"Attack!" Pang Xun gritted his teeth and said.
Now the form is clear. If Cao Bin was allowed to kill Wuning's cavalry first, Wuning's army would be defeated. If Pang Xun rushed ahead and killed the two thousand Xuanwu foot soldiers who were surrounded, then Cao Bin would have no reason to hold on.
The real battle has just begun.
Dong Liang on Dahuang Mountain was already about to despair. The enemy at the foot of the mountain, like a chicken's blood, has been forced out of the main wall, and the enemy in the northwest corner is also constantly eroding in the southeast direction. And the reinforcements he was counting on were still slow to arrive at the moment.
"General Dong, they're attacking again." Through the fence, I saw the tall enemy general carrying a horse lance in the northwest direction, killing him like a beast.
"Follow me and stop them." There was no one left to send, and there was only a team of hundreds of pro-soldiers left around him. This is also the most elite part of the defenders of Dahuangshan.
Dong Liang didn't rush to Tian Guofeng, Chen Fu had already aimed at him, with the help of Tian Guofeng's tall figure to cover up, and also thanks to Dong Liang's attention all focused on Tian Guofeng's body, he shot Dong Liang on the road of charging with three arrows in a row.
As soon as the main general died, the last spirit of the defenders of Dahuangshan was finally defeated.
The big banner with the red character was planted on the main village of Dahuang Mountain, and the sergeants on and off the mountain cheered together.
"Reward these gold, silver, jewelry, and copper coins to the generals, straighten out the soldiers and horses, and after half an hour, we will go to support General Cao Bin." With a wave of his hand, Zhu Youzhen distributed the wealth in dozens of boxes without blinking, which attracted bursts of cheers from the sergeants.
The war between Pang Xun and Cao Bin is still deadlocked.
The encircled 2,000 foot soldiers defended steadily, like a hedgehog covered in long thorns, leaving Wu Ningjun with nowhere to speak, and every time they attacked, they would leave corpses in one place.
And Cao Bin, in the face of those Wuning rangers running around, they can't be completely wiped out for a while, as soon as you leave, they gather, and as soon as you attack, they scatter like frightened birds.
For a while, no one could help anyone.
But Cao Bin was not too anxious, especially when he saw that the yellow pillar of smoke rising into the sky in the direction of Dahuangshan in the distance was gradually extinguished.
He saw it, and Pang Xun naturally saw it.
When the smoke column is extinguished, it is definitely not that Dong Liang has won, on the contrary, it means that the Great Yellow Mountain has fallen.
"Why hasn't Liu Xuan come yet?" He asked angrily.
No one could answer him.
"Withdraw, order the cavalry to entangle the enemy cavalry, and the foot soldiers slowly retreat. Send scouts to persuade Liu Xuan to come and answer quickly. Pang Xun yelled.
Of course, Liu Xuan will not come.
At this moment, he was standing at the head of Xuzhou City, and beside him was the complacent Zhou Qun.