Volume 2 The Death of the Yellow Turban Chapter 54 Flying Eagles and Swallows
A boundless yellow wave was surging in the plains of Yima Pingchuan, and about 30,000 Yellow Turban soldiers were advancing all the way to the north at the speed of a forced march.
The poorly equipped Yellow Turbans did not have much equipment to carry the load, and their marching speed had exceeded the level of ordinary Han troops, but this speed was still too slow for the suspicious Yellow Turban generals.
He looked at the pillar of thick black smoke dozens of miles away, suddenly pulled the horse's head, and roared angrily at the army in front of him: "Quick! The biography will command! Continue to speed up the march! ”
An adjutant general happened to ride his horse, and said with a wry smile: "General Chu, the soldiers have already let go of full speed, and the last general is worried that they will soon be unable to hold on!" ”
General Chu turned his face, a terrible scar on his thick black face was extremely hideous, and he said angrily: "General Digong ordered Ben General to immediately find out the truth about the fire ahead, and his army of 60,000 is ten miles away, how dare Ben General delay laziness?" ”
The lieutenant's face froze, and he said continuously: "What the general said is very true! The last general will immediately go and give another order! ”
"Wait a minute!" General Chu raised his voice and said, "What is the reward for the scouts sent?" ”
"Alas! The last general is about to report to the general! The deputy general patted his head and said, a trace of solemnity flashed in his eyes, "Something is wrong!" The last general has sent more than a dozen cavalry scouts, but no one has returned so far! ”
"Something is wrong!" General Chu stared at Zhong Zhong with concern, "The most worrying thing is that fire, it seems to be the direction of our army's ambush, what happened?" ”
Suddenly, there was a dull thunder faintly in the distance, and the deputy general looked up at the sky, and saw a large cloud floating overhead, and couldn't help but say: "But don't let it rain, otherwise the march will be even more difficult!" ”
General Chu couldn't help laughing and said, "You really don't have knowledge!" Those clouds are just cumulus clouds in the sky that obscure the daylight, but they are not rain clouds, how can it rain......."
He suddenly shook his whole body and screamed, "Not good! That's not thunder! It's cavalry! All the troops are in formation! ”
Just as the lieutenant general was still stunned, the Yellow Turbans at the front let out a terrifying scream.
A large cloud of smoke and dust suddenly rolled up on the long horizon in the distance, and the rumbling thunder became louder and louder, and in an instant, a black cloud-like cavalry cluster appeared from the smoke and dust, and swept towards the Yellow Turban Army Brigade with overwhelming momentum.
There was a chill in General Chu's heart, and there were at least six or seven thousand cavalry in this Han army! How could they suddenly be here? Coupled with the fire before, could it be that the 20,000 ambush soldiers in front of him are already there
He didn't dare to think about it any more, and shouted: "The whole army is in formation!" The spearmen come forward, the sword and shield hands are in the center, and the archers press back! Fast! ”
After a tense commotion, rows of terrified Yellow Turbans clenched their spears and formed a forest of spears in front of them and on both wings, and the sword and shield men formed a second echelon, protecting the most vulnerable archers behind them.
The Yellow Turban generals breathed a sigh of relief together, and finally had the strength to resist. Otherwise, the scattered infantry will fight the cavalry on the plain, and it will be self-defeating!
The cavalry of the Han army was already close at hand, and the sound of golden drums stepped out by tens of thousands of iron hooves hit the hearts of the Yellow Turban soldiers like iron hammers, and many of them turned pale and nervous and their legs trembled.
The spearmen in the front row saw the Han cavalry rushing madly, closed their eyes in despair, raised the spears in their hands, and let out a deranged shouting of killing.
The expected impact of flesh and blood did not appear, and the rumbling thunder suddenly spread out to the sides.
The Yellow Turban spearmen opened their eyes, and then they were shocked to realize that the thousands of cavalry of the Han army had divided into two long dragons a stone's throw away, and swept towards both sides of the Yellow Turban Army's phalanx, as if a giant scorpion was stretching out two long scorpion pincers and closing towards the yellow phalanx.
Without waiting for the Yellow Turban Army to come to their senses, all the Han cavalry in high-speed movement made a surprisingly difficult tactical move at the same time, they half-propped up their bodies from their horses, took off the horn bow behind their backs, put on the arrows, and then filled it up in an instant.
As a sharp whistle of a hammer rushed into the sky, the sky suddenly darkened even more, as if thousands of harps had been plucked at the same time, and a humming tremor resounded on the plains, even drowning out the thunderous sound of horses' hooves.
The rain of arrows fell from all three directions at the same time, which made the Yellow Turban generals completely stunned, and they really did not know what kind of order to give in order to effectively block such a non-contact attack of the enemy.
It was only a moment of hesitation, they paid the price of blood, the Yellow Turban archers in the formation were okay, their position was not yet within the strike range of the Han cavalry, the outer spearmen and the middle sword and shield hands were in chaos, and the fragile bodies without armor burst out with miserable large blood flowers, and some unlucky people who were at the shooting point were shot into hedgehogs in the blink of an eye, and fell straight to the ground.
When the second round of arrows from all directions rose into the air, the sword and shield bearers finally came to their senses, and they hurriedly erected the simple wooden shields in their hands, but they were squeezed by the spearmen who hurriedly retreated without any protection.
When the Han army of the left and right teams successfully rendezvoused behind the Yellow Turban Army's large array, the formation of the entire Yellow Turban Army had shrunk a circle compared to before, and the soldiers on the periphery desperately retreated, trying to try their best to get out of the range of the Han army's arrow rain, but a series of chain reactions made the archers in the middle completely lose the opportunity to counterattack, and many people were even squeezed into the bow dissatisfied, how could they shoot powerful arrows?
The Han cavalry burst into laughter, and they continued to detour along the perimeter of the phalanx, and continued to shoot a rain of arrows like locusts, as if they were playing a game of pitching pots.
Due to the gradual squeezing of the formation and the proper approach of the Han cavalry, the archers of the Yellow Turban Army in the middle of the formation finally became the object of abuse, they listened to their companions constantly screaming and falling to the ground with blood, their nerves collapsed instantly, and the only way to survive was to immediately curl up in a ball and use the bodies of their companions to block the endless rain of arrows.
General Chu opened his mouth in surprise in the dense shield array of his guards, because from that small gap, he could still clearly see that the Han cavalry kept repeating the exaggerated movements of half-erect bodies on horseback, how did they do it?
After continuing to complete the two-lap tour, the Han cavalry seemed to be tired of this unchallenged bullying, and they once again completed the convergence after the Yellow Turban Army's formation, and then headed south.
General Chu stared blankly at the screaming subordinates and corpses everywhere, his mind was in confusion, what the hell is going on? Why did the Han cavalry suddenly let themselves go? Although he had 30,000 men, he had no power to fight back under the continuous blows just now, and had already suffered five or six thousand casualties, and the Han army could completely annihilate this disheartened army at a very small price.
"Nope! Oh no! A look of fear suddenly flashed in his eyes, this terrible cavalry went all the way south, ten miles to the south was Zhang Bao's army of 60,000, but it was equally impossible for him to resist such an attack! The enemy army does not give a chance to hand-to-hand combat at all, otherwise it is enough to kill them even if they are piled up!
"Quick! Immediately the front team becomes the back team, and the back team becomes the front team! General Chu's face was already pale, if Zhang Bao lost his troops because he didn't stop this cavalry, he would never let himself go!
"Immediately move closer to the main army of the Digong General!" He said fiercely, "If the enemy cavalry still uses such long-range attack tactics, our army can launch a surprise attack from behind them!" ”
The already chaotic army gradually became more and more organized, General Chu was still lenient, he ordered the deputy general to lead 3,000 troops, save the dead and help the wounded on the spot, and he hurriedly led 20,000 troops to chase the smoke and dust behind the Han cavalry.
Suddenly, the rumbling thunder sounded again, and General Chu's eyes widened in despair, and he watched in amazement as the Han cavalry reappeared in view.
The cavalry of the Han army took the shameless tactics of taking advantage of the fire to take advantage of the fire to the extreme, not only did they continue to pour waves of arrows into the Yellow Turban Army's newly gathered brigade, but also some bold and reckless people got close to the Yellow Turban Army's formation, throwing rope circles one by one, dragging the poor insects who were unfortunately trapped in the quilt behind their horses and running wildly. Listening to the terrifying howls of their companions fading away from the smoke and dust, all the Yellow Turbans were terrified.
Soon, the Han cavalry, which came and went like the wind, disappeared into the dust of the south. General Chu sat on a big rock, looking at the wounded and the dead in strange shapes moaning and rolling in front of him, and he only felt like crying without tears.
A subordinate general walked over with a heavy face, and said, "General! We lost more than 1,000 brothers, and more than 2,000 were wounded! ”
The muscles on General Chu's face twitched, and he couldn't speak. Nearly 10,000 people were killed and wounded without even getting the enemy's hair! Can this battle still be fought?
The general said cautiously: "Dare to ask the general, is our army now fortified in place, or continue to move forward!" ”
"Go ahead!" General Chu suddenly shouted, "Do you still think that the brothers died less? ”
"However, how can the Digong General's Office explain?" The general lost his color and said, "If he is blamed, the last general will be afraid of you, the general?" ”
"Blame?" General Chu suddenly laughed nervously, "Don't you see the power of this Han army?" The 20,000-strong army of Thorn Mountain is over! Our army of 30,000 was also defeated! And Zhang Bao is going to be finished! Can he still blame me? ”
He looked at the general, his face showed shock, and his voice cooled down: "He Zhang Bao's life is his life, is it worthless for the lives of our brothers?" ”
The general's face finally recovered, showing a look of hope: "What does the general mean that my brother and I don't have to die anymore?" ”
General Chu gritted his teeth and said, "There are no outsiders here, you know what I know!" As long as the general receives a new military order under the pretext that the troops will be temporarily moved, how will the ordinary soldiers know the mystery of this? No one will know the secret that we can't save Zhang Bao when he dies! ”
He smiled bitterly: "Moreover, do you think that even if we want to save it, we can save it?" It's just a matter of taking your own life in vain! ”
The general let out a long breath and smiled: "The general is really wise!" The last general will always follow the general! ”
He secretly glanced left and right, and whispered, "In fact, the last general was almost frightened!" These Han cavalry simply can't resist, even if we want to, we can't stop it! ”
General Chu's face was also pale, obviously the general also said what he was thinking, he pondered for a while before saying: "You go back immediately now, and organize the troops in the rear to join us!" Remember, forget the dead, but not a single wounded! ”
The general nodded and said, "Don't worry, general!" But where should we go? ”
General Chu smiled lightly and said: "If the smoke rises today, I will judge that there will be a long time of war in the future, and the most important thing is to have soldiers and horses in my hands!" We can first go to the Taihang Mountains in the west to recuperate, and take the opportunity to recruit troops and horses, so as to wait for the times to change! ”
Seeing that the general showed hesitation, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't worry! Don't forget that the general is a native of Changshan, and the situation in the nearby area and Taihang Mountain is even more well-known, as long as we continue to attack the grange dock wall of those wealthy families, there will be inexhaustible wealth, which can definitely make the brothers worry about food and clothing! ”
The general said happily: "In this case, the last general has nothing to worry about!" ”
A hint of greed suddenly flashed in his eyes: "The last general thinks that with wealth in the future, we must give priority to building cavalry, if we can reach the combat strength of the Han cavalry just now, we will definitely be able to dominate Hebei!" ”
General Chu's lips trembled, and he suddenly said, "Grandma's!" After fighting for so long, the general still doesn't know which Han army it is just now? Next time you encounter it, it's better to apply oil to the soles of your feet as soon as possible! ”
The general was stunned and said: "The last general has seen the banner clearly, as if it is 'Han Ying Yang Captain Nanying'!" ”
"What! Eagle Yang Captain Southern Eagle? General Chu couldn't help but cry out miserably, "No wonder the beating made Lao Tzu dark!" This will be named Yan, this is a natural nemesis! ”
He jumped to his feet like an electric shock and shouted, "Quick! Organize an evacuation immediately, and God knows if that killing star will come back to us after destroying Zhang Bao! ”