Chapter 304: The Bloody Battle of Jiuquan (Part I)
Bai Buxin smiled bitterly: "I don't know if I should ask for praise or criticism, I led the army into a dangerous place, and it is my responsibility to talk about it, but this is the work of ghosts and gods, manpower is irresistible, and I led the army out, this time, I have to add or subtract, General Wei will not reward or punish me!" ”
Wei Qing also heard it funny, and said with a smile: "Tomorrow, let's go to meet the enemy, and then reward General Bai!" ”
Bai Buxin was stunned for a moment and asked, "We don't defend the city!" ”
"Why do you want to defend the city!" Wei Qing asked rhetorically: "Our army has been sharp for a long time, and now it is only engaged once, the enemy army is tired from afar, we don't need anything in this battle, it is enough to win by attacking and attacking, we must not only fight this battle, but also take the initiative to attack, to play the prestige of the Han army, and shock the Western Regions, so that it can be done!" ”
Bai Buxin nodded in admiration.
Yes, he was negligent, he only thought about the present, but he forgot to focus on the grand strategy of the entire Western Regions, before Wei Qing saved enough face for the Three Kingdoms Alliance, this is En, now in the face of the enemy's powerful army, it is necessary to fight back hard, this is Wei, Enwei and Wei, in order to subdue the countries of the Western Regions.
"General Bai, rest early!" Wei Qing saw that Bai Buxin looked distressed, knowing that he was too busy this day, and said at the moment: "Tomorrow morning, we still have to fight?" ”
Bai Buxin nodded, got up and left.
Wei Qing also slowly lay on the bed, but he couldn't sleep for a long time.
He wasn't worried about tomorrow's battle, but thinking about Zhao Yueru, Jiang Xiaoyu and Qi Muge.
Early the next morning, the Han army and the Western Regions coalition army marched. Although there were 20,000 casualties in the first battle of Jiuquan, the Han army plus the Western Regions coalition army still had 230,000 people, and the other side was 200,000, and the two sides were equal.
The Han army walked about thirty miles, and the Wusun army was already less than ten miles apart, and it seemed that both sides had chosen the same battle plan: rest first, and then attack forward.
"Go down!" Wei Qing ordered.
The 230,000 army immediately took action, busy but not chaotic, tight but not disturbed, Wei Qing looked at the army of 230,000 people, and a sense of pride rose in his heart.
Once upon a time, he was only a military commander, and when he felt the most beautiful, he only commanded thousands of people, but now, he is the commander-in-chief of the 230,000 army, however, now he is not the same as before, now he has adapted to the life in the army, adapted to the command of the army, and now, he is more responsible, the responsibility of 230,000 lives, the responsibility of the fate of the Han Empire.
From the opposite side came the sound of a trumpet, and a 50,000-strong enemy army was outflanking from the left.
"General Ma!" Wei Qing immediately ordered: "Defeat them immediately!" He pointed to the hill on the left: "Move fast!" ”
"Order!" Ma Chao raised his spear and led 50,000 soldiers to rush straight to the hill.
50,000 people trotted all the way, almost without stopping, rushing up the hill.
Wei Qige looked at the situation in front of him, and asked Abri in a suspicious whisper: "According to this, they won't be able to run until they run in front of the Wusun army, what is the Han army going to do?" ”
Abri shook his head, his eyes full of confusion.
The horse's hooves were urgent, and Bai Buxin rushed over and beckoned to Abri, Weiqige, and Dolan, the single father.
The three of them came to Bai Buxin's side and waited for Bai Buxin's instructions.
Bai Buxin said in a low voice: "General Wei's secret order, the three of you do this,,,,,! ”
The expressions of the three people changed from surprise to admiration to excitement, they all nodded, and hurried away, and after a while, the 30,000 Western Regions allies drove away separately.
On the hill on the left, Ma Chao shouted loudly, and the spear in his hand knocked the slow soldiers with the barrel of the gun from time to time, and the soldiers climbed up the hill one by one.
Finally, the 50,000 Han troops climbed up the hill out of breath.
"Array!" Ma Chao shouted: "Archers come forward!" ”
The soldiers hurriedly lined up, and the archers ran to the side of the hill, which was originally on the side of the attacking enemy, and they climbed up the hill, and if they wanted to attack the enemy, they had to change direction.
At the foot of the hill, the Wusun army was approaching, and they were not walking fast or slow, but they controlled their pace well, neither lagging behind nor too tired.
A rain of arrows struck, and dozens of Ukrainian soldiers on the flanks fell with arrows.
"Turn!" Commander Wusun ordered: "The shield hand comes forward, the archers ,,,,,, rely on me!" ”
Don't get me wrong, it's not that he's scolding his archers, he's actually scolding the sun.
He turned around and found that they were facing the sun, no wonder the Han army was desperately running to the hill, and now the Han army was condescending, and it was carrying the sun on their backs, and they not only had to attack on their backs, but also faced the sun, the archers couldn't shoot arrows at all, and in the dazzling sunlight, they couldn't even see where the enemy was, how to release the arrows.
But if you don't attack, you won't succeed, if you don't attack the Han army, the Han army will keep shooting you with arrows at the height of the hill.
"The shieldman comes forward, the archer retreats!" The commander of the Wusun army gritted his teeth and ordered: "Attack!" ”
The Wusun army rushed to the hill with a shout, and they rushed up in batches, and they were put down by bows and arrows in batches.
On the hill, Ma Chaozheng ordered again and again: "Five thousand people come forward to protect the archers, and the others ------ sit down and rest on the spot!" ”
Five thousand soldiers stepped forward to protect the five thousand archers, while the other 40,000 sat down to rest, but the soldiers who sat down to rest had suspicious looks in their eyes.
Although they were now condescending and carrying the sun on their backs, they could not stop the attack of the Wusun army with 5,000 archers, and if the Wusun army rushed over at all costs, they could still attack the hill.
The first attack of the Wusun army failed.
Without even a moment's pause, they immediately launched a second wave of attacks.
Wusun can dominate the Western Regions, relying not only on the advantage of numbers, if there is no strong combat effectiveness, no matter how many people can only be sent to death, the Wusun people have a unique set of methods for using troops, like the current is one of them.
Any army, if the first attack fails, it always has to be rectified before launching a second attack, but the Wusun army does not need to, they can immediately launch a second attack, and many small countries in the Western Regions are defeated by this method: they cannot resist the continuous attacks of the Wusun people.
The second attack rushed straight to the top of the hill, and the swords in the hands of the nearest Wusun soldiers almost cut the bowstrings of the first row of Han archers.
Five thousand Han soldiers protecting the archers rushed out, and on the edge of the slope on the top of the mountain, they attacked and killed the Wusun army, and the number of Wusun soldiers who rushed to the top of the mountain was small, and they were defeated in only a few moments.
The third attack of the Wusun army was launched.
This time, even Ma Chao couldn't help but praise, such a continuous attack, even the Han army could not do it.
The third group of soldiers of the Wusun Army rushed straight up with the corpses of their companions, and had already rushed to the top of the mountain.
"Archers back off!" Ma Chao ordered.
The archers retreated, and five thousand soldiers protecting the archers rushed to the front.
The Wusun army was 50,000, facing the 5,000 Han army. Although it does not occupy the day, it faces the sun; They did not occupy the advantage, they wanted to attack from the back, but they outnumbered the Han army, and they rushed up with a shout and fought with the five thousand Han army.
Several generals looked at Ma Chao.
The 40,000 Han troops were sitting a few zhang later, and General Ma was going to do what he was going to do.
Ma Chao didn't plan what to do at all.
"Command ahead, don't retreat, anyone who takes a step back will be killed!" Ma Chao ordered.
At the edge of the mountain, 5,000 Han soldiers desperately resisted, and behind them, 5,000 archers and 40,000 soldiers sat quietly.
A General Chang suddenly rushed in front of Ma Chao and shouted, "General Ma, we have 40,000 people available!" ”
Ma Chao was furious: "Nonsense, I'm not blind!" ”
General Chang's face flushed, and he slowly retreated.
In front, the 5,000 Han army finally couldn't stand it, and there were several defensive gaps.
"All stand up!" Ma Chao ordered.
With an uproar, 40,000 Han troops stood up in unison.
Ma Chao raised his gun: "Forward!" ”
40,000 people marched forward in a neat pace.
The two armies met, and in the blink of an eye, the Wusun army collapsed, thousands of Wusun soldiers rolled down from the top of the mountain with Dou Gulu, and other Wusun soldiers desperately fled down the mountain.
The commander of the Wusun Army could hardly believe his eyes.
How is this possible, the whole army collapsed in the blink of an eye, and this is a situation where continuous attacks are being launched!
Ma Chao watched this scene happily, he thought that at least this time, he should be at the same level as Wei Qing's strategy.
The whole army seized the high ground with its back to the sun, and occupied the right time and place, but due to the rapid charge, the soldiers lacked physical strength, so there was a shortage of people.
So he used 5,000 people to fight Wusun 50,000 people, his purpose was not to fight Wusun, but to delay time, as long as the main force was given some time to rest, when the physical strength of the Han army and the Wusun army was about the same, both sides had it, and the Han army occupied the right time and place, and the victory was naturally the Han army.
And the actual development of the war, better than Ma Chao expected, the Wusun army launched a continuous attack, the offensive is certainly fierce, but on the other hand, it also greatly consumed the physical strength of the Wusun army, when the whole Han army launched a counterattack, the physical strength of the Wusun army has been nearly exhausted, so that the time and place are favorable, the Han army is all occupied, how can the Wusun army not collapse.
"Onward!" Ma Chao shouted, waved his spear, and took the lead, leading the way with more than 40,000 Han troops to start a full-scale pursuit and slaughter.
On the right, there was also the sound of shouting and killing.
Soon after Ma Chao led 50,000 men to attack on the left, a trumpet was heard on the right, and another 50,000 enemy troops appeared.
"This is not the Wusun Army!" Mulan suddenly screamed.
Everyone has seen the banner of the Wusun Army on the left side of the party, and now, the banner on the right side is obviously not Wusun's.
"It's the Coalition!" Chen Qingzhi said.
Sure enough, of the 50,000 people who came, 20,000 under three different banners, and 30,000 under the banner of Wusun.
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