Volume 5 The Flame of the Burning Han Chapter 89 Ambush and Ambush
At the foot of the mountain, the long horn sounded continuously, and dozens of cavalry rushed back and forth between the forward army and the middle army, loudly conveying various orders. In a few moments, not only did Dong Zhuo's Chinese army brigade gradually stop its formation, but even the big clan team located between the two armies seemed to be ordered to stop moving forward and gathered on the side of the road in a chaotic manner.
"What the hell is going on?" Nan Ying saw all the changes through the telescope, and he was a little puzzled: "Could it be that Xu Rongjun found that there was an ambush ahead, so he turned around and returned to join forces with the Chinese army?" ”
"Impossible, right?" Gao Feng stuck out his tongue and said, "In addition to our army having such an ability, who else has such ability?" ”
He thought for a moment and added: "Even with the ability of our army to sneak and hide, it can only be infiltrated by a small number of elites, and it is possible to set up an ambush in front of Dong Zhuo's army!" No one else ....... be able to do it! ”
Suddenly, someone was shocked and said, "Look east!" ”
"This time, it's really a big deal....... Nan Ying looked at the east and became dusty again, and his face changed in an instant: "Your mother, if even Lu Bu comes to meet, then Lao Tzu is not thinking about whether to fight....... but how to escape!" ”
More than 1,000 people and horses of the Bohai Navy lay quietly on the mountain, and their scalps were numb as they watched Dong Zhuo's three armies gradually converge under the mountain, plus the private soldiers and horses of the ministers and tribes, a total of no less than 23,000 or 4,000 people.
Time passed quietly, but Dong Jun under the mountain was always stagnant, and Nanying could almost imagine that Dong Zhuo's side must be discussing what kind of plan it was for at this moment.
"It's moving! It's moving! Gao Feng blurted out: "General, Dong Jun has made a move!" ”
Under the dumbfounded gaze of the Bohai Navy, the Chinese soldiers and horses led by Dong Zhuo unexpectedly broke away from the brigade and headed straight to the west.
"Isn't Xu Rong a striker?" Someone was surprised: "When did Dong Zhuo Lao'er become so bold?" Don't even use an open-way striker? ”
"Xu Rongjun also moved!" Someone else lost his voice and said, "Look, they ...... Are they scattered into the forest? ”
Tens of thousands of horses and horses under the mountain moved together, and Xu Rongjun's 3,000 soldiers and horses were divided into the dense forests on both sides of the avenue. Quickly disappear into the dense forest.
Thousands of private troops escorted the carriages and horses to set off slowly, and continued to move towards Chang'an under the broken back of 10,000 horses and horses of Lu Bu's rear army, but their slowness was almost no different from that of a snail.
Nanying suddenly understood, and he almost jumped: "Your mother! There must be a large number of coalition troops chasing after him! Dong Zhuo, where did this kid become bolder? He was even less courageous, and even ordered Xu Rong to set up an ambush here, and Lu Bujun escorted the Qunchen Brigade to pretend to be the Chinese army, but he fled to Chang'an like a rabbit! ”
Hearing him say this, the generals of the Bohai Navy suddenly realized, and some people said angrily: "What a ghost!" Which bastard is so reckless? They don't care about sending them to death, but they spoil our big things! ”
Nan Ying looked at Dong Zhuo's army as it snaked towards Chang'an like a long snake. Angry, his eyes straightened: "This time it's really a blind man lighting the lamp - in vain!" Lao Tzu put so much effort into this, but he just let these fools stir it up! ”
Li Jin was thoughtful: "But Xu Rong, as the vanguard, how did he find out that there were pursuers behind him?" We can see clearly from a high position, whether it is Dong Zhuo's army or Lu Bu's army, they did not send scouts to chase Xu Rong before...... We can only conclude that Xu Rong discovered the problem himself! ”
"It's not impossible!" Nan Ying thought for a while and said, "If the general does not have the eye of the sky, then if he wants to pursue a group of soldiers and horses, he will definitely send a fast horse to make a detour to the front of the road that the enemy must pass." In this way, it will be possible to accurately grasp the time of passage of the enemy's troops, and maybe the sentinel set up in front of the coalition side has been discovered! ”
Gao Feng's face suddenly changed drastically: "General, the dense forest where Xu Rongjun set up an ambush is not far from the retreat location we have chosen in advance. And our brothers there...... Will it be dangerous? ”
"Don't worry!" Nan Ying shook his head and said, "That's the Beast Camp...... The nose is sharper than that of a dog, not to mention that they have a large number of beasts to act as eyes and ears, there will be no problem! ”
Although everyone was slightly relieved when they heard this, they watched Dong Zhuo calmly and far away. They all have a sense of distraction and grievance, and they have a strong sense of loss when they punch in the air.
"General, Lu Bujun is obviously stalling for time. Wait for the pursuers behind to enter the ambush circle! Someone whispered: "And we can't fight now, and we can't withdraw yet, but what should we do?" ”
"What to do? Cold! Nanying sat on the ground angrily: "Wait...... Ben Jiang is just trying to see where this bastard who has broken Ben will do good things is sacred? ”
Sand and dust rose again in the distance, and the coalition pursuers who had been "greeted" a thousand times by the officers and men of the Bohai Navy finally arrived.
This force, numbering between 15,000 and 20,000 men, was not only fully armed and morale-boosting, but also reflected the traditional Han army combat style between operations, and was clearly not a temporary rabble.
The soldiers of Lu Bu's army began to retreat in a "panic", and from Nanying's condescending gaze, they were also breathtaking. Because the chaotic military formation of the Lu army just showed the panic of a sudden attack, if it was replaced by any general leading the troops on the coalition side, he was afraid that he would not hesitate to attack with his army...... In this way, he fell into the trap of Lu Bu and Xu Rong.
The hundreds of soldiers who were behind the Lu Bu army ran a little slower, and they were immediately surrounded by the vanguard of the coalition army, and they were all killed in an instant. Some people in Lu Bu's army shouted orders, and in the midst of the golden drums, all the soldiers ran like grease on the soles of their feet, surpassing some of the private troops.
Looking at the private army and the chariot and horse brigade that were chaotic all over the mountains and fields, the main general of the coalition army obviously removed the last trace of doubt in his heart, and when the flag flew over, more than 10,000 soldiers burst out into a shocking shout, and the whole team of men and horses was pressed, and there was a great momentum to crush the entire formation of the Dong army in one breath.
Suddenly, horns sounded on both sides of the avenue, and thousands of Xu Rongjun's ambush soldiers rose out to kill them, cutting off the pursuing soldiers of the coalition forces protruding from the front.
Lu Bu's army, which was fleeing frantically, also turned back and fought back, resisting the offensive of the coalition forces to the death.
The forward of the coalition army was originally in full swing, like a red-hot blade straight into the henchmen of Lu Bu's army, but after being cut off by Xu Rongjun's horizontal middle, the situation was immediately reversed, but it was divided and surrounded, and it was unable to form an army for a while.
"Re-queue! The shield hand is up, and the archer is behind! "Someone in the coalition shouted hoarsely. However, instead of waiting for his general order to be executed, he ushered in a rain of arrows from Dong Jun.
Thousands of longbows trembled at the same time, and the flight paths of countless white feathers converged into a vast white net, almost making the coalition soldiers lose their fighting spirit.
In the terrible piercing tearing sound, the coalition soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and the array of archers that had just been barely assembled was also shattered.
Dong Jun, who completely occupied the initiative, was like a group of gray-brown ant colonies, slowly but firmly crushing over from three directions at the same time, tearing apart and devouring the periphery of the coalition army array layer by layer!
Everyone knows that the coalition forces are gone, and if they don't retreat, they will be wiped out. However, the commander-in-chief of the coalition army knew bitterly that in such a difficult terrain, an attempt to retreat would likely shake the entire line, and it would be difficult to organize any effective resistance. And even if it is a successful retreat, the all-infantry coalition will be defeated by the superior cavalry of the Dong army.
Nanying let out a long sigh and raised his right hand again...... If it was replaced by any coalition general, he would have wished that the two sides would fight to the death, but he had already seen the banner of this coalition general from the telescope, it was a person who had to come to his aid - Cao Cao!
Even though he is not afraid of the consequences caused by the vicissitudes of history. But Cao Cao is a real hero, if he must die, he must not die in the hands of Dong Zhuo in such a muddle, not to mention. I still put so much money on him? If you let him die before you get anything back, wouldn't you be losing all your money?
"Listen to my orders....... Nan Ying stared at the battle situation under the mountain without blinking, cautiously calculating the direction of Dong Jun's continuous advance, and even the title of "general" was automatically filtered.
When the first column of Dong Jun squeezed the coalition forces into a continuous retreat. When he raised his legs and crossed the cordon marked with white stones, Nanying's eyes lit up and he shouted, "All catapults." According to the calibrated position, non-stop projectile! ”
"After three rounds of strikes, all marksmen, look for the location of the oil and shoot freely!"
"All the soldiers, according to the signal of the flag commander, take the middle of the Dong army's formation as the point, and fire a salvo of bows and crossbows!"
"Yes! Checkmate! One by one, the voices of the soldiers came down.
"Put!" The tightly twisted leather cord was instantly released, and one by one, the black whirring fire oil clay pots were thrown out by the powerful force, like a meteor swarm towards Dong Jun at the bottom of the mountain.
This simple projectile is extremely simple to make, find two giant trees in the direction of the mountain side by side, and then tie them between the two trees with yak tendons that are widely equipped in the Bohai Navy, and put a bowl-shaped concave leather goods in the middle of the leather band, which becomes a catapult device that can be fired many times in a row. The only disadvantage of this type of projectile is that it has a limited range, but fortunately, the target below the mountain is not far away, and the altitude of the projectile can also make full use of the parabola to extend the landing point.
After many experiments with the same weight beforehand, at least dozens of oil cans were accurately smashed on Dong Jun's head in the first round, except for a few unlucky ghosts who were hit in the head and fainted without a sound, more oil cans were smashed in Dong Jun, but almost no one was alerted....... on the huge battlefield of tens of thousands of people, both sides were already killed, and the means were even more exhaustive, not to mention throwing a few oil cans, it is not surprising that the marching pot was smashed.
"Marksman! Put! Cao Xuan personally gave orders to a hundred of his direct subordinates.
"Whew! Call! Whew" fireballs were drawn from the tips of one arrow after another, and they swooped down the mountain like a fire crow throwing into a forest.
The bottom of the mountain is full of thousands of heads, and the repeated see-saw fight is even more dazzling, even with the accuracy of the marksmen, nine out of ten rockets have fallen in the air, however, the number of targets hit is not much, a few places are enough.......
The flames that rose to the sky spread happily, and many Dong Jun who were on fire screamed and avoided, but inadvertently caused more fires, and when there were hail-like oil cans above their heads that continued to fall, the generals of Dong Jun finally felt the abnormality, however, it was too late!
Without waiting for Dong Jun to look around in panic and find out where the oil tank was launched, they only heard the sound of "buzzing", a large area of dense arrow rain rose into the air like a swarm of locusts, and then rushed down fiercely, after the heavy arrows fell from a high altitude, their strength far exceeded the normal projectile method, and many Dong Jun were even pierced by long arrows and nailed to the ground.
The number of the Bohai Navy entrenched in the mountains was small, only about 1,200 people, but at the critical moment, the excellent equipment of the Bohai Navy once again showed a strong advantage...... Even a recruit who has just enlisted in the army will be issued with a strong crossbow, some soldiers who are good at shooting are even equipped with a bow and a crossbow, and the arrows are several times more than the standard configuration of ordinary Han army archers.
Seeing that the Dong army, which was originally pressing step by step, was thrown into chaos by the sudden offensive, especially the countless Dong troops who were on fire screaming and running, which made the morale of the Dong army drop to a low point, and the coalition soldiers who had been retreating suddenly burst out with huge cheers for their lives, and their morale was high and they took advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack.
"W-w-wh!" A burst of horns sounded from Dong Jun, full of the rugged and heroic style of Liangzhou. However, this rhythmic sound of the horn was all too familiar to the officers and men of the Bohai Sea, because they had heard it at least five or six times in just a few months.
Seeing that after Dong Jun broke off with the cavalry, a large number of soldiers and horses retreated in the direction of Chang'an like a tide, and a Bohai Navy soldier spat fiercely on the ground, and said disdainfully: "What Xiliang soldiers are the best in the world?" Lao Tzu listened to their escape horns, and his ears were calloused! ”
"The person who said that the Xiliang soldiers were invincible, that is the one who has not seen our Bohai Navy......" The person who said this was dancing between his eyebrows, and suddenly saw the beautiful general passing by, and hurriedly changed his words: "Our Bohai Navy is also a hero!" ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" The herald shouted, "The general has an order, and all of them have it...... Abandon the hill position and go down! (To be continued......)