Chapter 600: Retreat

Yan Liangwen Chou understood that his defeat was certain at this time, and the two did not continue to fight to the death without believing in evil, but used themselves as arrows to lead the cavalry to rush to the army to rescue the cavalry who were trapped in the Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

It is also ridiculous to say that the Yan army, which is twice the size of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry, was actually besieged by the other party. And during this period, seven or eight thousand troops have been lost. The losses of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry were less than two thousand, and nearly half of the losses were directly or indirectly killed by the two of them. is also a cavalry, and the difference in combat power between the two sides can be judged at the moment, which is really a world of difference. Of course, this is also the reason for Gongsun Zhan's own excellent command ability.

When Yan Liangwen Chou rescued his iron cavalry, Gongsun Yue and Zou Dan also slowly led the army to surround them.

Looking at the foot soldiers surrounding him, Wen Chou gritted his teeth and shouted: "Big brother, let's withdraw, if we don't withdraw, it's too late!" ”

Yan Liang looked back at the soldiers behind him who were only five or six thousand, and the thousands of iron horsemen who were still trapped and slaughtered by the Youzhou Iron Cavalry in the distance, and his heart was crossed, and he said in a deep voice: "Withdraw!" ”

Just watching Yan Liangwen Chou lead the army to retreat, Gongsun Chan did not lead the army to pursue, but ordered the infantry to stay behind to destroy the remnants of the enemy and reorganize the cavalry.

"Your Majesty, aren't we going to pursue?" Tian Yu asked.

Gongsun Zhan didn't care about the thousands of iron horsemen who fled, looked at the main battlefield in the distance and said in a deep voice: "It's just a little defeated, why care." My 100,000 iron cavalry is the most important, as long as Yuan Shao's Chinese army is defeated, the rest is not to worry about. ”

After saying that, Gongsun Chan snorted lightly and directly led the army to charge towards the battlefield ahead.

The judge located in Yuan Shao's Zhongjun looked at the ending of the battlefield on Gongsun Zhan's side, and sighed lightly in his heart: Sure enough, it's still too much to think about killing Gongsun Chan with Yan Liangwen and ugliness!

However, there was not much disappointment in his heart at this time, he didn't expect Yan Liangwen and Chou's 40,000 iron horses to play much of a role. After all, when it comes to cavalry, the gap between them and Gongsun Chan is completely different from heaven and earth. The most intuitive thing is that even if Yuan Shao can defeat Gongsun Zhan, he can't fight the alien races in northern Xinjiang like Gongsun Zhan without the power to fight back. This is not a presumptuous judgment, but an ironclad fact.

He was able to defeat Gongsun Chan because Gongsun Chan was a Han man with discipline and backbone, not a foreign race who was brutal and unscrupulous to the Han people. Yan Liangwen Chou's 40,000 iron horses look the same, aside from Yan Liangwen and Chou, under the same circumstances, it is impossible to say whether they can defeat 10,000 Youzhou iron horses.

At the beginning, Yuan Shaoda formed these 40,000 iron cavalry not to fight hard with Gongsun Zhan, but in the same idea as when he ordered Chun Yuqiong to form a water army, hoping that he could make himself have a card to deal with under Gongsun Zhan's iron cavalry at a critical time, and its positioning was cannon fodder, or for the purpose of pursuing victory.

How could the power of a hundred thousand iron cavalry charge be so easy to deal with? Despite the blessing of the Xuanwu Battle Array, the judge still didn't dare to bet in front of Gongsun Zhan, the white horse general, who knew what accidents would occur when this bloody outbreak occurred. Therefore, as soon as the trial came up, he directly sent out these 40,000 iron cavalry, in order to divide the battlefield and contain Gongsun Zhan's part of the army outside the main battlefield.

Although Yan Liangwen was defeated, he also completed the task of trial. In the short period of time that Gongsun Chan was entangled with him, the situation on the main battlefield had quietly changed.

Zhang He's halberd warriors burst out with amazing strength under the cover of the surrounding foot soldiers, and set up a tortoiseshell array with the halberd warriors as the core, and were stunned to resist the charge of the Youzhou iron cavalry head-on with more than 1,000 halberd warriors and 50,000 foot soldiers. However, the price it paid was not small, and after the three thousand halberd warriors experienced the battle with the white horse and the charge of tens of thousands of cavalry, there were less than a thousand people left, and everyone was wounded. If it weren't for the support of a brave spirit in his heart, I'm afraid that most of the remaining halberders would have fallen.

But now, in the face of the halberd warriors who stood in the center of the front army like an iron tower surrounded by tens of thousands of foot soldiers, the Youzhou Iron Cavalry also began to be afraid, and began to attack the Chinese army from both sides. It is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, although Youzhou Iron Cavalry is also a strong-willed person and is not afraid of fighting, but they still choose to avoid its edge as if it is a conditioned reflex.

Although the existence of the halberd warriors served as a shield for Yuan Shaojun to block the oncoming attack, the charge of the 100,000 iron cavalry did not stop. The cavalry is strong in its mobility and flexibility, although the edge is slightly reduced, but the 100,000 iron cavalry is still charging frantically from the gap between the sides and Yuan Shaojun.

The judge was located in the middle of the Chinese army, watching the changes in the situation, constantly ordering the soldiers to wave the formation flag according to the law, so as to command the army. In order to deal with the cavalry charge of Gongsun Zhan, he can be said to have put a lot of effort into it.

Zhang He with 50,000 foot soldiers and euphorbia soldiers was in front of the tortoiseshell formation, while on both sides the crossbowmen led by Lu Kuang and Lu Xiang stepped forward to snipe the soldiers who charged in a goose-shaped formation. Gao Lan, who led more than 100,000 troops to sit in the middle army, led the army to form an improved version of the square circle array, with the giant shield soldiers as the wall, hollowed out the formation, drove the oncoming cavalry into the designed road in the formation, and turned to face the charging enemy army into a horizontal circular charge, slowly frustrating its sharpness. On the outside of the army, Jiang Yiqu led the army to the Xuanxiang array to confuse the enemy, and Han Meng led the army to the Yanyue array to wait for the opportunity to attack.

This series of arrangements took a lot of effort from the two of them, and the coordination of several formations was all centered on dealing with the Iron Cavalry Charge. Although this kind of military formation is powerful when combined, it has the defect of chasing many, not only is it difficult to change the formation and command, but there are also many flaws in the link and cooperation between them.

Overall, this is a dead formation, although it is powerful, but if the opponent has a person who is proficient in military formations, it can be easily broken if he finds his weakness. However, it is enough to deal with the group of reckless men under the command of Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Zhan's unfancy head-on charge is the right one.

That is, to deal with Gongsun Zhan, who has a tendon, he would not dare to use this array to deal with other princes, otherwise he would definitely be thrown into a mess by the broken army, and it would be better to directly set up a circle formation.

If this formation is more complicated, it is estimated that it will be close to the Bagua Array, and if it is sublimated again, it will be Zhuge Liang's Eight Array Diagram. But the gap between the two sides is a cloud and mud, one is a dead array full of defects, and the other is a mellow and flawless living array. However, at this time, the power that this array can exert is no less than that of the Bagua Array, because it is facing Gongsun Zhan's 100,000 iron horses.

Among the 100,000 iron cavalry, there were only 40,000 Youzhou iron cavalry, and the rest were the cavalry of Wuhuan and Southern Xiongnu, charging on both flanks and in the rear. The trial has to deal with the former, and the latter is just a foil.

Most of the Youzhou Iron Cavalry without Gongsun Zhan's command followed Gongsun Zhan's initial arrangement, and directly crashed into Gao Lan's improved version of the square circle array without retreating, and was included by Gao Ran with more than ten soldiers.

Facing the shield wall composed of countless giant shields erected around it and the road vacated in it, the Youzhou Iron Rider, who was a human being, naturally avoided the shield wall out of the instinct of seeking advantages and avoiding harm, and rushed into the road inside, but this was exactly in Gao Ran's arms.

The Youzhou Iron Cavalry charging in the shield wall seemed to be caught in a labyrinth, constantly charging according to the road arranged by the Gao Lan army, while the soldiers on both sides were constantly attacking and killing it through weapons such as hook and sickle spears and halberds, while changing formations, turning the large array into a labyrinth with no exit and no end, trapping the Iron Cavalry in it.

But the death battle is a death battle after all, and the people's hearts are unpredictable, and the trial did not expect that the white horse Yicong would appear as a heavy horse. The white horse Yicong, who was originally almost flawlessly arranged in front of people and horses, became a complete joke in front of him.