Chapter 944: Victory or Defeat
In the distance, a line began to light up in the sky, which was already gray, and the sky changed from pure black to dark gray.
At this time, it was also the time when the soldiers who had been on duty all night were most sleepy, the soldiers on the sentry platform yawned, wiped away the tears that could not help but flow with the back of their hands from time to time, leaned obliquely on the wooden pillar of the sentry tower, and staggered so hard that they could barely support themselves so as not to fall asleep.
I don't know why, the soldier suddenly felt that the watchtower seemed to be a little shaking, and at first he felt that he was tired and ruthless, so he couldn't stand steadily, but as his hand grasped the wooden pillar of the watchtower, he found that even the wood began to shake together, and even the sand on the wooden plank laid on the watchtower was trembling and jumping slightly......
This is no illusion!
The soldiers on the guard tower suddenly broke out in a layer of cold sweat, and when they were blown by the night breeze in the early morning, they couldn't help but shiver through their hearts!
Suddenly looking up to the west, the soldiers found a group of cavalry figures in the faintly discernible sky, and suddenly appeared in the distance of sight. It was only at this time that the soldiers heard the faint sound of horses' hooves.
Needless to say, the cavalry of this area were all wrapped in thick cloth on the horses' hooves, and it was not until they got close to the front that they heard the dull sound of hooves in the morning wind! These cavalrymen are like ghosts in the night, coming to harvest the last flesh when the light of day is about to come!
To say that Huangfu Song is not much negligent, after all, he is a veteran of the battlefield, no matter how he is based on many years of rich experience, whether it is marching or camping, there is no big problem.
Let's not talk about the foot soldiers, just the cavalry, normally the cavalry marches eighty miles a day, if it goes up, it's not impossible, but it will inevitably lose horsepower, after galloping one hundred and twenty miles overnight, there is not much physical strength to supply the battle, so this distance is just a relatively safe number, but Huangfu Song never thought that the three thousand cavalry that Ma Teng came from Wuzhang Yuan turned out to be one person and two horses!
Although it is said that running a horse can also consume some physical strength, it is much better than carrying weights, just like a famous athlete running a marathon may not be able to outrun an ordinary soldier in the army in a weight-bearing cross-country race.
Normally, Xinfeng has a county seat, a city wall, and a favorable location, even if the Xiliang soldiers want to resist, want to fight, and want to play any tricks, they will also be launched near Xinfeng City, so whether it is Huangfu Song or the soldiers in the camp now, in fact, psychologically, they all feel that there is still a distance from Xinfeng, and it is still a safe place.
But now, from Huangfu Song to the ordinary soldiers in the big camp, they didn't expect that this battle would come so quickly, as if they had just bent down to pick up their knives and guns, and the enemy's knives had already been cut off on the head!
Now those exhausted war horses were left behind, and when Li Dao led the cavalry to kill in front of him, these soldiers in the Huangfu Song camp had no preparation at all!
Now not only the soldiers on the watchtower in front of the five-flower-shaped camp have found the cavalry, but even the soldiers in the camp on the left and right flanks have also found these cavalry.
The Xiliang cavalry seemed to fall from the sky, suddenly appeared in front of their eyes, and the war horses had increased their speed enough, these Xiliang veterans silently lay on the horse's back, hiding their bodies behind the horse's neck, on the one hand, reducing the wind resistance and reducing the burden of the war horse, on the other hand, it is also to reduce the risk of their own exposure.
War!
Horse!
Flee!
Rise!
The spears and swords in the hands of the Xiliang cavalry flashed with cold light, like a surging tide, surging directly into the camp of Huangfu Song!
There are thousands of people and horses, there are quite a lot, especially the cavalry, which is naturally more space-occupying troops, in a hurry, the soldiers on duty on the sentry tower in the Huangfu Song camp, where is there a way to calm down and count the number carefully, but I feel that from a distance, this piece of black shadow jumps, it is like overwhelming!
Before the soldiers on these sentry towers could recover from the shock, these attacking Xiliang cavalry had quickly approached the camp, and when they got closer, the sound of horses' hooves could finally be heard more clearly, and they began to roar like thunder, and they couldn't tell the specific location of the horses' hooves, but they rumbled into a large area, and the legs and feet of the soldiers on the sentry tower began to weaken.
The soldiers on duty finally reacted, and with a terrible shout, the warning gong sounded into a one!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Enemy attack! ”
More terrible shouts followed, accompanied by the piercing sound of the gong on the watchtower, and the soldiers and colonels who were sleeping soundly in the camp, and even the auxiliaries and civilians in the rear camp, were all alarmed, or from the tent, or from the nest in the ground, or simply from the field, and suddenly became a mess.
Some of the soldiers picked up their blades and rushed out of the tent, some looked left and right for the blades but did not know that the blades were always at his feet, some blushed and shouted frantically, and some were pale and just wanted to retreat into the darker corners......
The regular soldiers, auxiliary soldiers, and civilians are mixed together, and they have different reactions to each other, and such a large battalion is like a hornet's nest in a fryer in an instant, and it will be chaotic at once.
Huangfu Song also reacted, and hurriedly rolled up from the bed, and didn't even have time to put on his clothes, so he ordered loudly in a loud voice: "Assign people to watch the people, so that they can't mess with themselves, at this time, those who mess with the army's hearts will be killed!" In addition, gather all the military marquis and order them to immediately organize a defense on the spot! Order the cavalry on both wings to attack immediately! Inform the generals that this general orders that they must not retreat, and if they violate, the whole team will be killed! ”
The pro-soldiers beside Huangfu Song immediately responded loudly, and then hurriedly rushed out to give orders, while Huangfu Song strode out of the tent surrounded by the remaining pro-soldiers!
At this time, Huangfu Song can be regarded as understanding, where does this Xiliang thief soldier have the slightest intention of retreating, it is clear that he is just retreating again and again, slackening Huangfu Song's military spirit, and now it is the time for Huangfu Song to set up camp on the flat ground, and suddenly attack!
These Xiliang thieves galloped down for one hundred and twenty miles, aren't they afraid that the war horses will lose their strength?
Unless one person has two horses, and the battle is transferred?
But where did the Xiliang thieves get so many war horses?
Could it be......
"Damn! What are these scouts doing to eat, and they can't even find out when the Xiliang thief touches the front! Huangfu Song was really angry, and couldn't hold back his anger. When he got out of the big tent and was blown by the cold wind, he suddenly felt a little chill in his body, and Huangfu Song couldn't help but wrap the big one tighter.
Huangfu Song didn't expect that the Xiliang soldiers would attack here, could it be that those so-called horsemen in Hongnongwu Fort, or the Southern Xiongnu Hu cavalry, could have predicted it?
Therefore, after being tired for a day, these scouts have conducted a reconnaissance of the surrounding area for thirty or forty miles, and they can rest at ease, especially when it is close to dawn, there is a person who will automatically and consciously run out to blow the cold wind?
Now the five-flower camp on the field, looks magnificent, in fact, this was originally an open land of Pingchuan, these Xiliang cavalry was originally using the dark night to cover the smoke and dust, so that the soldiers in the Huangfu Song camp could not be noticed, and now, as the sky gradually brightened, the attacking Xiliang cavalry finally appeared clearly in the eyes of the soldiers in the Huangfu Song camp.
The horse, which mentioned the speed limit, almost ran wildly against the ground, and after the four hooves of a tall horse of Pixiliang briefly knocked on the ground four times, it seemed to fly over the flat ground with four hooves! Xiliang's cavalry either hid behind the horse's neck, did not shrink by the saddle, mixed with the smoke and dust in the sky, and rushed up!
The men of Xiliang, since the Warring States Period, have basically sung the song of Lao Qin, not to be sad, but to be happy. The twenty-level military merit titles of the short-lived Qin Dynasty provided a relatively equal starting point for every man who was willing to fight, and these Western Qin people, even some of the Qiang people close to the Han land, were accustomed to licking blood on the knife edge and taking people's heads to gain fame, until the Han Dynasty replaced the Qin Dynasty, until the people were flooded, until Xiliang became a place where the scholars did not want to go......
After Wang Mang, the people of Xiliang basically never lived in peace. As the distance from the central court became distant, and with the half-abandoned attitude of the scholars towards Xiliang, the people in this land, whether Han or Qiang, were getting farther and farther away from a stable life. In recent decades, it has become more serious, the central control ability has been weakened day by day, and the Qiang people have supported their own troops under the strong leadership of Xiliang Haoqiang, giving birth to one interest group, before Dong Zhuo, and now this is a simple alliance of Li Dao, Guo Yan, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others.
But no matter what, these men in Xiliang still advocate force and are used to knives and guns!
Huangfu Song's archers, under the orders of the generals of each battalion, began to gather and prepare to suppress and shoot at the Xiliang cavalry, but before these Xiliang cavalry arrived in Chang'an, they were already horse thieves who followed Li Dao back and forth, and their premonition and judgment of danger far exceeded that of ordinary militiamen.
Although the five-flower camp is beautifully built and magnificent, there are still some gaps between the camp and the camp, and the Xiliang cavalry is fast and fast, often the front battalion on this side has just gathered a group of archers to prepare for the attack, only to find that these Xiliang cavalry have gone around the gap between the camps diagonally to the other side, and rushed to the cavalry camp on the side......
Huangfu Song's Chinese army camp began to gather all kinds of pikemen, sword and shield men, and archers, and began to prepare for the battle, but was thrown out by the Xiliang cavalry who rushed around from one side, and there were torches thrown in casually, which immediately caused another chaos in the queue, and several unlucky tents were stained with flames, and in a blink of an eye, they burned up, emitting puffs of black smoke.
"Fuck it all up! Defend on the spot! Don't mess around! The general in the Chinese camp shouted, "Go and a few people cut down that burning tent!" Don't let it burn into the adjacent tent! ”
Huangfu Song was not affected by these fireworks in the slightest, and still stood firmly in front of the Chinese army's tent, standing under his battle flag. Suddenly attacked, Huangfu Song did not panic much, but worried that other people would panic, when he saw that the soldiers in the cavalry camp on the left and right sides of the Wuhua camp finally moved slowly, and began to fight with the Xiliang cavalry, it was a long breath.
This situation is stable.
The only one who could hold back the cavalry was the cavalry.
Ordinary soldiers may not be able to tell how many Xiliang soldiers are coming in the smoke and dust, but how can Huangfu Song, who has been in the army for decades, not know, don't look at the huge momentum of the Xiliang cavalry, in fact, it is only two thousand cavalry at most!
And under his own command, there are also 2,000 cavalry!
As long as you carry the panicked time of the sudden attack for a while, as long as your Chinese army is steady, plus the cavalry on both wings is dispatched, then the two thousand cavalry of Xiliang, on the one hand, are restrained by their own cavalry on the left and right flanks, and on the other hand, they have to face the gradual assembly of complete foot soldiers on the front, then there is only one ending, that is, it is like hitting a stone with an egg and ending in a fiasco!
So now, what Huangfu Song has to do is not to hastily lead the infantry who have not yet formed a complete array to fight against the Xiliang soldiers, but to rely on the protection of the camp to stabilize the infantry who are now a little panicked, and finally fight with the Xiliang cavalry.
But now these soldiers in front of Huangfu Song made him somewhat annoyed.
The first time I encountered this kind of attack, some panic was inevitable, and Huangfu Song could understand it, but since he had already stood up, and the banner of the Chinese army had not changed in the slightest, these damn soldiers were running around like a headless fly, how long would it take to calm down?
Huangfu Song frowned and shouted in a deep voice: "The overseer team is out!" Pass on a certain general's order! All the soldiers stood in place, waiting for the school rules to be put in order! Those who dare to rebel against the army will be beheaded immediately! ”
The selected team of the superintendent are all veterans on the battlefield, and most of them have a slight relationship with the Huangfu family.
Although order has been restored somewhat, Huangfu Song still frowned and sighed slightly.
As a large battalion of the Chinese army, there are still some veterans who have been on the battlefield, but it has also become such a panic......
If he was in command of those soldiers who had been trained for a long time, he would have calmed down and formed an array at this moment. After all, the loss in Tongguan is too great, and the people who have been replenished are still somewhat worse, alas......
If there were still some more veterans from the original, now that the troops are integrated, I am afraid that maintaining order will not be so slow and difficult......
Huangfu Song shook his head, put some negative thoughts behind him, and continued to command loudly, commanding, and constantly gathering soldiers.
Even if this is the case, only two thousand Xiliang cavalry will not be able to achieve any good results! Wait until the infantry form an array and go out of formation, and then the cavalry on both wings will pack in the middle, and these Xiliang cavalry will have no room to gallop, either they will fight hard, or they will break through and escape, and no matter what, they should be invincible......
It is impossible to say that after this battle, there will not be many cavalry left in Xiliang to use. It's okay, let the Xiliang thieves smash the last bit of cavalry's family here, than wait until the attack on Chang'an to contain it on the side!
"Someone! Herald! Huangfu Song shouted categorically, "Order the cavalry on both wings to entangle the Xiliang thief soldiers, wait for the Chinese infantry to gather, and then defeat them in one fell swoop!" ”