Chapter 275: Commander
The power of the armored cavalry was undoubted, and it was a surprise attack launched after the mobilization of Duan Xuan's army, and with just one attack, it broke through the defenders' triple defense line and directly entered the formation of crossbowmen.
The spear pierced the armor, making a crisp or piercing sound. Rows of infantry were put down like wheat, even if they were not stabbed, and the heavily armed armored cavalry could knock people half to death with just a hit, and in the screams, the defenders' defenses had been broken.
Although the armored cavalry also ran out of kinetic energy in the continuous impact and became an embarrassing state of being surrounded by a large number of infantry, the light cavalry of LΓΌ Bu's army immediately rushed in along the gap that had been opened. Hao Meng and others, who were attacking head-on, also intensified their attacks, and Duan Xuan's army, which was attacked on several sides, soon could not support it, and a large number of soldiers began to kneel and ask for surrender.
They have already surrendered once, and it would be a matter of easy handling to surrender again.
There are still many people who have been beaten and retreated, but they don't want to surrender to Lu Bujun, because the reputation of the other side is too bad. With enemy troops in front of them and a big river behind them, these people simply turned back and threw themselves into the boiling water. Duan Xuan watched the 40,000 army under his command fall apart like this, and his heart was full of chagrin and remorse.
My brother once taught and warned again and again that "the major affairs of the country of soldiers, the land of death and life, must not be ignored", why do you still want to support the army and divide one side in a ghost? But then, he showed an ugly smile on his face, in that situation, heroes and heroes couldn't help but make a move, right?
With such a good opportunity, how many people can endure it? Not everyone can enter the emperor's general situation!
He stood desperately and helplessly on the riverbank, ready to wait for the final moment. The crossbowmen on the side were already in disarray, running around and shouting like headless flies, making all sorts of noises of unknown significance. Duan Xuan was already waiting for death, but his own soldiers were not prepared to be captured like this.
"Lord, quickly take off your clothes and armor and cross the river with the horse's head!"
Duan Xuan struggled and shouted, "The army is scattered, what is the meaning of me living?" Let me die! β
But the soldiers did not listen, and stripped him of his armor, took off his helmet and weapons, and dragged him into the river. Duan Xuan originally thought that he would die, but he was flooded by the river, but his body honestly hugged the horse's neck, and he refused to let himself be choked again.
You can't blame me, Duan Xuan said in his heart: If you want to blame, blame the water for being too cold!
A big wave came and swept the men and horses out. Duan Xuan hugged the horse's neck stiffly, and went through ups and downs in the waves of Weishui several times, and he didn't know how much water was poured into his mouth and nose. Later, his eyes went black and he lost consciousness.
When Lu Bujun began to attack Duan Xuan's army, Chen Cheng had already noticed it, and he immediately ordered the whole army to prepare. A moment later, the horse galloped over and shouted, "The Lu Bu army has launched an attack!" β
In this era when communications are basically based on roaring, once the formation of tens of thousands of troops is deployed, it is difficult to make other adjustments. Therefore, when many generals knew that they would hit their heads and bleed, they would still grit their teeth and let the soldiers rush forward to make a wave. Without it, the retreat would have lost more, and it was still much more, and maybe it would collapse directly.
Since Lu Bu's army had already begun to attack, there was no possibility of withdrawing in a short period of time. Even if you can successfully complete the difficult tactical maneuver of retreating in front of the enemy, it will take a long time to regroup.
Chen Cheng jumped on horseback, raised his cavalry spear, pointed forward, and said in a loud voice: "Order Yang Qiubu to go around to the rear of the enemy army and launch an attack on Lu Bu's army that is attacking Duan Xuan!" β
Trumpets and drums sounded on all sides of Anhan-eup, and a detachment of infantry and cavalry marched out and pounced on the enemy in the distance. The distance between the two armies was less than twenty miles, and the cavalry galloped quickly at this point, and it would take less than half an hour to complete it.
The light cavalry that set out first easily crushed the few remaining reconnaissance forces of LΓΌ Bu's army, and the cavalry of the brigade made a half-circle and inserted itself into the rear of the enemy army who were waiting for him. The vast majority of the Western Liang Army was cavalry, and its mobility was much higher than that of the enemy. On a battlefield like the Guanzhong Plain, the side with stronger cavalry has a great advantage.
Seeing that the Xiliang thief didn't come to attack, but instead made a detour and ran to the rear, the defender of Lu Bu's army first laughed loudly, saying that the Xiliang thief didn't understand the art of war at all, so there were so many enemies in the rear? Once flanked, the enemy's army is easily crushed.
In the battle of Chencang in the past, after Huangfu Song sent Wang Danghuan, he ended up exclaiming that the whole army was annihilated.
But when the cavalry of the brigade had bypassed, and Zhao Yun led the Flying Bear Hussars and the "Shangfan Cavalry" to have approached the front, these people could no longer laugh. It is not known whether the enemy who has penetrated into the rear will be flanked by the enemy, but they are now surrounded. Although he firmly believed that Lu Bu would not give up on them, he could clearly feel that the morale of the army had dropped a lot.
These people occupy villages, embankments, ponds and other more defensive places, and they are not too far away from each other, so that they can easily rescue each other. But all their preparations are based on the fact that the enemy will crash into them, and what if the enemy does not come?
They fought with Dong Zhuo for a long time, and they had been pressing Dong Zhuo's Hun cavalry, but they didn't expect that the Xiliang people would be able to pull out so many elite cavalry. It's completely different from what they thought before! Knowing that there were so many cavalry of the Xiliang people, Lu Bu would never deploy the army like this.
It's all to blame on Duan Xuan, if he hadn't behaved so badly, Lu Bu wouldn't have been so arrogant as to use his forces in two!
As the 40,000-strong army quickly inserted behind them, Lu Bu's army was torn in half at once. The Xiliang Army, which was running back and forth, severed the connection between the front and back departments, whether it was for Lu Bu. Or for the defenders in the west, when they don't get news of friendly forces, friendly forces seem to be non-existent.
The two sides haven't really fought yet, but the cavalry of the Xiliang Army has already controlled the situation on the battlefield and forcibly pressed the fog of war on the head of Lu Bujun. The generals of the Lu Bu army guarding the west shared Cheng Lian, Song Xian and several others, in order to deal with Xiliang's iron cavalry, they prepared a lot of spears and crossbows, and prepared for defense according to the geographical advantage, but now the Xiliang army did not entangle with them at all, and directly spared the past, and many people were a little at a loss.
The generals may still be able to keep their composure, but the soldiers below can only see what is happening in front of them, and it is easy to conclude that they are surrounded. By the time the trapping camp and the other three infantry battalions arrived, the army of Song Xian and Cheng Lian and others had already begun to feel a little uneasy.
LΓΌ Bu inherited the Bingzhou army that Ding Yuan brought to Guanzhong, but the headquarters was only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and the rest were either the annexed Huangfu Song's old department, or the annexed Guanzhong defenders, or the militia forcibly recruited from Sanfu. These people were already a little dissatisfied with Lu Bu, and they knew very well the horror of the Xiliang cavalry, and now after being besieged, panic suddenly broke out.
Fortunately, the officers who were inserted by Lu Bu tried their best to suppress it, which suppressed the restless bullets of the soldiers.
Looking at the enemy army who were waiting for him, Zhao Yun said: "Lord, you can attack now." β
Chen Cheng looked at the spears that were stuck in the ground, shook his head, and said, "They are waiting for us to rush in." β
"A few obstacles don't get much in the way."
Chen Cheng smiled and said, "Whatever the enemy wants, we won't do." In this way, you take the flying bear hussars, trap camp and other soldiers and horses here to watch them, and I will go to meet Na Lu Bu for a while! β
Zhao Yun hurriedly grabbed the reins of his mount, causing the Gollum boss to be unhappy, and its eyes widened, and it was about to open its mouth to bite Zhao Yun. Chen Cheng calmed his mount and asked, "Why not?" β
"It's only a few miles away from where Duan Xuan was trapped, and the enemy said that it was divided into two places, but if it really started, this distance was enough for the war horse to gallop for a while. General Yang Qiu brought the county soldiers over, and they must have already fought, why don't the lords sit here and watch us break the enemy? β
Chen Cheng was groaning, and Zhao Yun said: "This time is different from the past, our army is 70,000, the enemy army is more than 100,000, so many troops, it is not a time and a half to fight, the lord should calmly dispatch troops and horses, not be brave for a while!" β
"Alas, Zilong, what you said makes sense."
Of course, Chen Cheng knew that now he should not charge forward like before, as the scale of the war has become larger and larger, his value as a commander has exceeded the value of being a fierce general. Chen Cheng sighed and said, "Then forget it!" β
He said to Zhao Yun with some interest: "Then let's not disturb Yang Qiu's command, let's help him watch this group of enemies here first." β
At a distance of several miles, the sound of the fight was much quieter, but it still seemed to be audible clearly. After a while, a scout horse galloped over and reported loudly: "Report! Duan Xuan's army has collapsed, and General Yang Qiu has already sent Cheng Yi and Ma Teng to attack Lu Bu's army! β
The Lu Bu army in front of him had more than 50,000 people, occupying some geographical advantages, and it seemed that the armor soldiers were very good, so Chen Cheng did not attack, but waited for the results of the battle in the east.
"Report! Zhang Hengbu threw himself into the left wing! β
"Report! Lu Bujun launched a cavalry charge against Cheng Yinbu! Cheng Yinbu was defeated! β
"Report! General Yang Qiu mobilized Han Li's troops to launch an assault on the flank of Lu Bu's army! The hoplites of Lu Bu's army have been scattered! β
"Report! The horse play department flanked Lu Bu's army, encountered the enemy general Zhang Liao, and the horse play general was wounded! β
As the information came one by one, Chen Cheng's expression gradually became serious, he muttered for a while, suddenly jumped on the horse's back, and said loudly: "Go to the commander of his army, we are going to go into battle to fight!" The guards are coming with me! β
Before the words could be finished, Gollum had already excitedly shook off his hooves and rushed into the distance. Behind him, Liu Qian followed closely on a war horse. Wei Ran and Zhao Si also immediately jumped on horseback, shouted loudly, and followed with the guards and soldiers.
Zhao Yun: "............"
Li Kan and Liang Xing were first surprised when they saw Chen Cheng rushing forward with his own soldiers, and then they became excited. They glanced at each other, but Li Kan stepped forward and said to Zhao Yun: "General Zhao, those villages are not very strong....... Why don't we attack too? β
Zhao Yun shook his head and said, "Just suppress the activities of the enemy's cavalry, as long as they don't move, then we will watch here." β
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