Chapter 123: The Pursuers Arrived
"My lord, at the current speed, the enemy will catch up in half an hour." During the march, Tai Shici reported to Zhang Hao after receiving the news of the horse visit.
"Yide, continue to accelerate, Zilong and Ziyi will stay with me." Zhang Hao glanced back and said.
"Lord, you take these captives and go first, and I will stay with Ziyi and Zilong." Zhang Fei said with a glare.
"Lord, you all retreat, I'll just stay with the Flying Feather Battalion." Tai Shi Ci stepped forward and said.
"Okay, no more talk, that's it." Zhang Hao said with a loud shout.
"Lord......" Several people wanted to say something more, but they were interrupted by Zhang Hao waving his hand.
"It's going to be Liaodong soon, and there aren't many mountains left, so if Yide retreats quickly with his prisoners, we won't have a problem breaking through the enemy's army."
"If the Huwei battalion stays, when the time comes, take care of your speed, it is likely that everyone will not be able to run, and the enemy has an army of thirty or forty thousand"
"If the Flying Feather Battalion or the Dragon Martial Battalion are left alone, it will be difficult to hold back all the enemies, and it will be difficult to break out of the enemy's encirclement later." Zhang Hao explained, and the three of them shut up and didn't speak again.
The order was conveyed, the team marched normally, and all the soldiers of the Yongwu Battalion and the Feiyu Battalion slowly withdrew from the ranks, and the soldiers of the Huwei Battalion took over all the Goguryeo people.
The team quickly walked out for a distance, leaving only the soldiers of the Longwu Battalion and the Feiyu Battalion scattered in the same place, and under the organization of officers at all levels, they quickly gathered together.
Zhang Hao ordered the soldiers to rest for a while, so that they could quickly restore their physical strength to the best state, estimating that the time was almost up, and with an order, the army was quickly arrayed.
As soon as the formation was completed, the Goguryeo army arrived, and the two armies stood opposite each other, in front of the Goguryeo army of 30,000 or 40,000, Zhang Hao's 6,000 cavalry could be said to be completely insignificant in number.
But their morale was high, there was not the slightest fear on their faces, and they stood calmly and calmly on horseback, and in front of the army, there were five teenagers standing proudly.
The middle person is Zhang Hao, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici are separated, and then outside are Zhang Hai and Zhang Wen.
In front of the Goguryeo army, the most central one didn't know what to say, and he walked out on a horse.
"Who are you? Why did they come against us, and plunder our people? The man shouted aloud in Chinese.
Zhang Hao was stunned for a moment, and then relieved, this Goguryeo had dealings with the Central Plains when he was in the Western Han Dynasty, and it was nothing to have a few translators who could speak Chinese.
"When you ask someone who they are, aren't you going to introduce yourself first?" Zhang Hao smiled and said, he was happy to chat with the other party for a while, so that he could buy more time for Zhang Fei.
"This is our Daiga Youju, who are you?" The translator paused for a moment, then pointed to the general in front of the army.
The word "plus" comes from the Buyeo language, which means chief or chief, and in Goguryeo, there are Dajia, Xiaojia and Gu Hina Ga, among which only the people of the royal family can be called Gu Hina Ga, and Da Jia is already a big official position.
"This general is General Du Liao, leading Liaodong Taishou." Zhang Hao reported to his home.
"Our Goguryeo and the Han Dynasty do not offend each other, why did the general send troops to attack my Goguryeo?" The interpreter asked righteously.
"Don't offend each other? Joke, you have to plunder the people of Liaodong several times a year, this is called not offending? Or can you plunder us, and we can't plunder you? Zhang Hao said with a sneer.
"We said that as long as you release my people of Goguryeo, we can let you leave safely, and even the treasures you plundered can be taken with you." The translator said a few words to Youju, and then said to Zhang Hao.
"Give back to you the people? Let me think about it. Zhang Hao said and pretended to think.
It seems that this Youju also understands the importance of the people, and in the case of absolute superiority, as long as the people are returned, the property can be dispensed with.
At this time, Goguryeo had a population of only five or six hundred thousand, and Zhang Hao took nearly one-tenth of it away at once, which had a very great impact on national strength.
(The numbers are fictitious, don't be true, according to the records of the Three Kingdoms, Goguryeo has 30,000 households, and if each household does not exceed 10 people, Goguryeo should have only 200,000 people at most during this period.) )
"Shame on you, stalling here." The translator watched Zhang Hao fall into thought, and after exchanging a few words with Youju, he pointed at Zhang Hao and scolded.
And Youju waved his hand and shouted, and the Goguryeo army set out in unison and rushed towards Zhang Hao.
At this time, Zhang Hao's army was lined up in a conical formation, but it was wider than the normal conical formation, and the front and back were shorter, which could increase the contact surface with the enemy and increase the lethality.
The whole large array was pointed by Zhang Hao, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici guarded the left and right, the outside was the light cavalry, and the middle was the archer cavalry.
"Iron Hoof on the march." Seeing the Goguryeo soldiers rushing over, Zhang Hao shouted.
"Born to die." The soldiers in the rear shouted in unison, and with the roar, the large formation rushed forward neatly, and the formation did not twist in the slightest while moving.
Zhang Hao took the lead, rushed into the enemy formation first, followed by the horses, and the entire large array was like a sharp blade, and the enemy fell in pieces where he passed.
After a burst of killing, seeing that he was about to chisel through the enemy formation, Zhang Hao shouted to change the formation, the soldiers around Zhang Hao waved the battle flag again and again, and the entire army saw the flag waving, and the speed gradually slowed down.
After stopping, the formation quickly changed, turning into a large circle, the outer side was still light horses, tightly protecting the bow horses in the middle, the archers raised their long bows one after another, and threw them out of the formation, while the light horses were divided into two layers, and the outer layer revolved around this circle.
If it was a normal battle, Zhang Hao could penetrate the enemy's military formation, and then choose to flee far or turn around and kill back, but now it is to buy time for Zhang Fei, so naturally he can't fight like that.
At this time, the formation was a deformation of the circle formation in the ancient eight formations, and the original circle formation was a defensive formation, which was defended by the sword and shield soldiers of the infantry army on the outermost side.
But now Zhang Hao has no infantry army, and the cavalry can only use the momentum of the war horse in motion, so Zhang Hao changed the circle formation slightly, so that the light cavalry on the periphery moved around the archers inside.
The circle of Zhang Hao's army was like a big meat grinder, but all the enemies who approached became the ghosts of the light cavalry, and those who were far away had to face the rain of arrows from the archers.
The flag waved again, and the light cavalry on the inner layer put away their bows and arrows, raised their spears, and the light cavalry on the outer layer gradually slowed down, and the inner layer found an opportunity to rush outside, wrapping the original outer layer of light cavalry inside, and taking their place.
After the light cavalry that had been outside was changed to the inside, they stopped their horses, put away their spears and took out their bows and arrows, and shot outside.