Chapter 9 Iron Cavalry vs. Flying Army
When Kang Peng was still under the city of Hanzhong, which was full of ugliness and divided the determination of the soldiers and people of Hanzhong to defend the city, he divided his troops to meet Zhao Yun of the Yizhou reinforcements, and the vanguard of the Ganning army had already exchanged hands with the vanguard of the Yizhou reinforcements in the west of Wuxiang.
On September 26, the third year of the Han Dynasty, that is, the evening of the first day of Dong Zhuo's army attacking Hanzhong, the three thousand iron cavalry led by Gan Ning arrived in Wuxiang first, which is a small city, with only a few thousand residents, and the Hanzhong army stationed in Hanzhong had already been transferred by Zhang Lu to Hanzhong to defend the main city, and let Dong Zhuo's army occupy it without blood, Gan Ning remembered Jia Xu's parting instructions, did not enter the city and station, but continued to move westward, taking advantage of the relatively flat terrain of the Hanzhong Basin to give full play to the cavalry advantage, and first give the Yizhou reinforcements a dismount to frustrate the enemy's morale
Only ten miles out of the city, Dong Zhuo's army was covered with dust in front of him, and a team of Yizhou cavalry appeared on the horizon, the number of troops was about the same as Gan Ning's troops, and the handsome flag was marked with a high character, which was the famous general Gao Pei of Yizhou. Gan Ning was overjoyed, when he was not a Jinfan thief before, he set up an underworld organization in Jiangzhou to sit on the ground and share the spoils, and lived a happy life, and then Gao Pei's troops exterminated his underworld organization, Gan Ning was forced to flee by boat, and since then he has embarked on the road of water thieves.
"Brothers, use our gorgeous formation to break the enemy's ugly formation!"
Accompanied by the signature shouting in Ganning, the letter flag and the pennant were unfurled, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was skillfully divided into five horizontal teams, first forming a roughly parallel column, advancing in a very wide formation, until it was close to the Yizhou Army, the two horizontal teams on the front suddenly slowed down their advance, and the other three teams suddenly separated, speeding up and impacting the two wings of the Yizhou Army respectively, forcing the Yizhou Army to divide their troops to meet the enemy, and the combat experience of the Yizhou cavalry on horseback was far inferior to the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and the troops were divided in a hurry. The formation immediately became chaotic, and at this time, the two teams in front of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry suddenly accelerated, rushed directly into the formation, and inserted it into the heart of the Yizhou army like a sharp knife.
Before the two armies collided, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was the first to fly out of a rain of arrows, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was strictly trained, every soldier could release arrows on horseback with a bow on his feet, the range far exceeded the Yizhou cavalry's hand-drawn bow, and the Yizhou Army was shot down in the blink of an eye, and the fallen horses and riders tripped over many Yizhou cavalry running at high speed, the two armies had not yet been close to each other, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry had completely seized the opportunity.
When it comes to the real head-to-head battle, the combat experience and full training advantages of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry are even more revealed, and the iron cavalry on both wings is interspersed with impacts back and forth at the intersection of the front and flanks of the Yizhou Army, and can continue to maintain a neat formation in the high-speed rush, and at the same time cut off the mutual response of the various teams of the Yizhou Army, so as to facilitate the division and destruction of the enemy by the army, and in accordance with the command of the signal flag, the javelins and bows and arrows thrown are also accurately landed in the densest places of the enemy's formation, bringing devastating blows to the enemy.
The Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which was attacking the enemy head-on, took advantage of the height and long legs of the northwest horse compared to the Sichuan horse and the Tibetan horse, and condescendingly gave the enemy a head-on attack and broke the enemy's frontal line with strength. Gan Ning, who was bent on avenging the destruction of his family, was even more crazy in the battle, slacking in the enemy's formation, and all of them were invincible, killing the corpses of the Yizhou army all over the field, and he was terrified.
Gan Ning was in conflict, head-on collision with a general, it was the Yizhou pioneer Gao Pei, Gan Ning did not answer, shouted a slap horse straight to take Gao Pei, Gao Pei was busy raising a gun to meet the enemy, the two fought together, the battle was not counted, the rear of the Yizhou army suddenly came to shout killing, and the rear team that was quite stable was also disrupted, it turned out that the fifth team of Xiliang Iron Cavalry did not directly meet the enemy, but with the help of the cover of dust and hills, a large detour to the rear of the Yizhou army, so as to surround the Yizhou army.
Seeing this scene, Gao Pei was even more flustered, his marksmanship was chaotic, and Gan Ning seized the opportunity to sell a flaw, dodged Gao Pei's steel gun and rubbed his body forward, and cut Gao Pei to the ground with a knife, and the main general died, and the Yizhou army was defeated like a mountain, and they all rushed to escape, but Xiliang Tieqi was willing to let go of the opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune, and kept chasing the butt of the defeated army for dozens of miles, and Gan Ning collected his troops and returned to the camp.
The defeated army of Yizhou fled back to the camp, and cried to Jia Long about the defeat of the army, Jia Long did not punish them, but only inquired in detail about the battle process and the tactical characteristics of the Xiliang iron cavalry, after listening to the description of the defeated soldiers, Jia Long sighed: "After many years, the iron cavalry of the Dong thief not only did not regress, but went to a higher level, which is really admirable." In fact, Jia Long also praised Kang Peng too much, Kang Peng knew how to train cavalry, but Kang Peng knew how to use people, and the Xiliang Iron Cavalry was handed over to Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and Ma Chao, who were good at cavalry combat, for training, so Kang Peng didn't intervene to help.
"From this point of view, on flat ground, our army is not the opponent of Xiliang Iron Cavalry at all." Zhang Ren asked worriedly: "But most of the terrain in Hanzhong is relatively flat, but if our army wants to save Hanzhong, we must go to the flat ground, what can I do?" ”
Jia Long shook his head, "Don't worry, no matter how strong the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is, it also has an Achilles heel, it can't impact and intersperse in a narrow terrain, and can only be slaughtered by others." Jia Long opened the geographical map of the mountains and rivers in Hanzhong that Yan Pu gave him, and beckoned to Zhang Ren, "Child, come here." ”
"You see, there is a valley thirty miles south of Wuxiang, and the mouth of the valley is narrow at both ends, and there are trees on both sides, or cliffs, which can be ambushed." Jia Long smiled at Zhang Ren and said: "Child, tomorrow I will let Wang Xian and Li Quan lead the Wudang Fei Army to the valley to ambush, you lead the army to fight the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, and you will not be allowed to win, and then flee south, and introduce the Xiliang Iron Cavalry into the valley, and the rest of the things, you don't need the teacher to teach you anymore, right?" ”
Zhang Ren was overjoyed, clenched his fists and bowed down and said: "The student must do it, and he must lead the Xiliang Iron Horse to the valley." ”
At the same time, in Dong Zhuo's military camp, Zhao Yun and Gan Ning opened the bag that Jia Xu handed them over, and there were several letterheads in the bag, one of which read: 'Xiliang Tieqi is not good at fighting mountains and rivers narrowly, if you encounter a forest, do not chase when you go up the mountain, if the enemy army escapes into the valley, you must not enter, just return to the army to attack the enemy's camp, the enemy's main camp will be empty. The other few are maps of Hanzhong, which analyze the possible ambush location of the Yizhou army, and also arrange for the interception of the Yizhou army returning to the main camp at that location, especially with cinnabar to indicate that the enemy is not allowed to pursue and kill if he escapes there, and the details are as detailed as possible.
Gan Ning took the map and said with a sad face: "Why does that beautiful Jia Xu keep giving me such an ugly problem?" According to his ugly arrangement, wouldn't we be able to fight on flat ground, not even on a small hill? ”
Zhao Yun smiled, "Master Jia is like a god, he must have his reason for arranging it like this, we just do it, and we will definitely win the battle." ”
Gan Ning crawled on the desk weakly, dangling the bell and muttering: "Although that military advisor is more beautiful than the Taishi, uncle, every time I see him, why is there always a cold sweat on his body, and I always feel that he is terrible." ”
Zhao Yun smiled bitterly, and said in his heart You haven't seen the viciousness of him dealing with the anti-Dong coalition army in Tiger Prison Pass and those who participated in the civil and military conference in Luoyang, if you see it, I'm afraid it won't be a cold sweat. But Zhao Yun would never say these words, and he still comforted: "Xingba, don't think so much, you are very hard today, go and rest, there will be a vicious battle waiting for us tomorrow." Gan Ning was indeed tired, and soon went back to the tent to sleep, but Zhao Yun went out of the tent to make a careful round, and then went back to the tent to rest.
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Late at night, when Gan Ning slept soundly, the opponent he was about to face, but there was a soldier in the Wudang Fei Army who couldn't sleep, as usual, he tossed and turned on the bed until his comrades in the same tent were asleep, he quietly got up, carried a bucket of water to the dark place where no one was to bathe and cleanse himself, but after he washed his body, he took out a bottle of black water and smeared a layer on his face, so that the white and tender skin turned into an inconspicuous light black.
The moonlight that night was very bright, the sky was full of stars, and the night wind blew on his face cool and comfortable, and he was also fascinated by this view, and he was not in a hurry to return to the account, but found a corner to sit down, and thought about the full moon in the sky.
He took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms, staring at the warm and soft light reflected by the jade pendant in the moonlight, and unconsciously, his beautiful apricot eyes like a woman were already full of tears, "Father, mother, I will definitely kill Dong Zhuo to avenge you, at that time, I will go down to accompany you ......"
"Who?" A passing patrol spotted him, and the captain shouted, "Come out, or we'll let the arrows go." ”
He was taken aback, hurriedly put away the jade pendant, and walked out of the shadows, "Captain Hu, I'm Lu Wen." ”
The patrol leader also recognized him, nodded and said, "Oh, it's Lu Wen, do you want to come out for a little relief?" After solving it, go back to the tent and sleep, now before the great enemy, rest well to have the strength to survive on the battlefield. The patrol captain thought about it and said: "You are a new member of the Wudang Flying Army for less than two months, although the martial arts are good, but you don't know the military regulations of the Wudang Flying Army, no orders are allowed to go out of the account at night before the war, and the big and small solutions are only allowed to be solved in the account. ”
Lu Wen hurriedly said words of thanks, but he said mischievously in his heart: "Hmph, what is the first offense?" I secretly go out every night, but you stinky men don't know it. ”
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That night, the Wudang Flying Army made food for the third watch, and the fourth watch went out of the camp with the friendly army to Jialong to arrange an ambush at the mouth of the valley; Early the next morning, Zhang Ren led the army out of the camp, and went straight to Dong Zhuo's army to challenge, Gan Ning joined Dong Zhuo's army, and was about to make meritorious contributions, so he immediately led the troops out of the camp to fight Zhang Ren, Zhao Yun was afraid that he would be impulsive and misguided, so he also led the troops to accompany him.
The two armies met each other, each shooting their own positions, Zhang Ren came out of the battle and scolded: "Jinfan rat thief, dare to swagger in front of the formation? Quickly call Zhao Yun out to die! "Gan Ning hates others to call him a Jinfan thief, he stepped forward angrily, the two horses intersected, the battle did not count, Zhang Ren pulled the horse and left, Gan Ning was willing to give up, urging the army to chase and kill, Zhang Ren walked for a few miles, and returned to the horse to fight with Gan Ning, and then turned back and ran, at this time not only Zhao Yun, even the more impulsive and reckless Gan Ning saw that Zhang Ren was luring the enemy, Gan Ning also pretended not to know, cautiously chased, what hills and forests did not enter, just chased on the flat ground.
The two families were pretending to be confused and fighting and leaving, and in less than an hour, Zhang Ren led Gan Ning to the mouth of the valley where the Wudang Fei Army was ambushing, and Zhang Ren returned to the horse and scolded, "Gan Ning, do you dare to fight to the death with me?" Gan Ning didn't answer, he slapped his horse and stepped forward to fight with him, and he couldn't fight, Zhang Ren turned his head and fled into the valley, and the Yizhou army also fled to the valley, waiting for Dong Zhuojun to come in and catch turtles in the urn. But......
"Hahahaha......!" Gan Ning stopped riding and stood at the mouth of the valley and let out his signature frivolous laugh, "Ugly General Zhang Ren, our beautiful military advisor has long seen through your ugly tricks, beautiful Uncle Gan, I won't enter the valley, so go back and copy your ugly camp, and let the gorgeous flames rise in your ugly camp!" ”
Zhang Ren was frightened, and hurriedly returned to the horse and wanted to rush out of the valley, but Gan Ning waved a big knife, and the Xiliang Iron Horseman, who had been prepared, threw the reed grass and sulfur he carried with him to the valley mouth, and a burst of rockets went down, and the valley mouth ignited a skyrocket, and Zhang Ren's army and the ambushed Wudang Fei army were blocked in the valley. Gan Ning laughed triumphantly and said, "Ugly General Zhang Ren, you slowly appreciate the gorgeous burning of Uncle Gan's beautiful flame, I'm going to arrest your teacher." ”
Zhang Ren was shocked and angry, and hurriedly commanded the soldiers to sprinkle soil to extinguish the fire, and the Wudang Flying Army also rushed out of the ambush to participate in the firefighting, but when they put out the flames, Gan Ning's army had already slipped away, Zhang Ren and others did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly returned to the division rescue camp. Rushing all the way, the Yizhou army led by Zhang Ren and the Wudang Fei army rushed back to the camp by shortcuts, and there were more than ten miles away from the camp of the Chinese army, Zhang Ren and others had already seen the smoke billowing in the direction of the camp, obviously they had already handed over there, Zhang Ren and others were even more panicked, and they didn't care about grabbing the land and taking the narrow road at the foot of the mountain, but they just took the shortcut and hurried - that is, the time for bad luck came.
When Zhang Ren and the others hurried to a large piece of flat land, when their whole army stepped into the flat land, a cannon suddenly sounded behind the hills, and countless well-equipped Xiliang iron cavalry rushed out, and surrounded Zhang Ren and others on the flat land in an instant-that is, the place where the Xiliang iron cavalry can give full play to its advantages, led by the general white horse and silver spear, chic and handsome, far better than Gan Ning, who loves stinky beauty, is naturally Zhao Yun Zhao handsome guy.
Zhao Yun laughed and said: "Zhang Ren Xiao'er, you have fallen for my family's military division, so don't get off the horse and surrender quickly." Zhang Ren didn't answer, but gritted his teeth and urged him to go forward to fight Zhao Yun, and the commanders of the Wudang Flying Army, Wang Xian and Li Quan, also stepped forward and attacked Zhao Yun with Zhang Ren. And the Xiliang Iron Cavalry roared up, and the two armies suddenly fought together.
If it is in the mountains or in the woods, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is bound to take the Wudang Flying Army who is stepping on the mountains and wading on the flat ground, and is helpless, just let the Wudang Flying Army slaughter it, but on this flat land, the advantages of the Wudang Flying Army cannot be played, and the role is only similar to that of ordinary infantry.
The biggest feature of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry is that the maneuver is fast and the impact is strong, in this battle they are even more incisive, a team of Xiliang Iron Cavalry back and forth impact, in the enemy's formation freely, often a team of 100 people can easily break up the phalanx composed of hundreds of infantry, the infantry who have lost the protection of the battle array cut over, poked down, and then stepped into the flesh, in order to prove that they are the king of the flat battlefield.
In the melee, Zhao Yun with one enemy and three, still not left behind, and the plight of the Yizhou army looked at the eyes of Zhang Ren and others, which made them even more flustered, and there were more flaws between the fights, and soon, a flaw in Wang Xian was caught by Zhao Yun, Zhao Yun shouted, raised his gun to open the attack of Zhang Ren and Li Quan, and crashed into Wang Xian's heart, and immediately knocked Wang Xian into a mouth, and then was picked off the horse by Zhao Yun with a shot, and was trampled into flesh and blood by the surging Xiliang Iron Horse in the blink of an eye.
"Brother Wang Xian!" Li Quan's eyes were red, Wang Xian and he had been comrades-in-arms who lived and died together for many years, friendship and brotherhood, Li Quan didn't care how big the gap between himself and Zhao Yun's martial arts was, he pounced on him with a fierce attack, and shouted, "Dog thief, return my brother's life!" "But Zhao Yunna will be afraid of him, and the steel gun is swinging, making the birth of Ping's stunt 'Hundred Birds and Phoenix', and the incomparably fast stabbing one hundred and one shots even Lu Bu does not dare to be his front, and immediately overwhelms Li Quan and Zhang Ren.
Zhao Yun stabbed in the middle, and suddenly saw a flaw under Li Quan's ribs, and the head of the gun was immediately pressed, stabbing out like lightning, seeing that the head of the gun was about to be inserted under Li Quan's ribs, a shot suddenly came from the side, which hit Zhao Yun's gun, and immediately bounced Zhao Yun's head away, only scratching a deep wound on Li Quan's lower abdomen.
Zhao Yun's heart was shocked, and his heart said that the martial arts of the people were not weak, and he was busy looking at it, but it was an ordinary Wudang Feijun, about sixteen or seven years old, with a dark face but quite delicate, and there was a war horse under his crotch that should have been robbed of Xiliang Tieqi, and the soldier shouted: "General Zhang, General Li, you quickly take your brothers and escape, this dog thief will be handed over to me!" The soldier's voice was sharp and delicate.
Li Quan recognized him as a recruit he had recruited at the junction of Yizhou and Jingzhou in two months, although he was young but his martial arts were quite good, Li Quan was still a little worried, "Lu Wen, can you stop him?" ”
"Stop!" Lu Wen shouted at Zhao Yun: "Dong thief's lackey, suffer death!" As soon as the spear swung, he fought with Zhao Yun, his spear was extremely fast, and for a while he actually entangled Zhao Yun, who was also good at speed. Li Quan also calmed down at this time, the most important thing at present is to save the lives of the soldiers first, not to rush for revenge, and hurriedly command the Yizhou army and the Wudang Fei army with Zhang Ren to escape from the battlefield, and let Lu Wen fight Zhao Yun alone.
That Lu Wen was full of spirits, the spear made it like a gust of wind, a shot was faster than a shot, and stabbed at Zhao Yun again and again, but Zhao Yun was afraid of him, from the collision with his spear just now, Zhao Yun knew that this opponent was not as fast as his own strength, Zhao Yun was completely sure that he would be cut off under the horse, but Zhao Yun thought so, when Dong Taishi was employing people at the moment, this Lu Wen was a talent, and he should be able to use it under Dong Taishi's account, so he had the heart to capture - that is, Lu Wen's time was unlucky.
"Ping!" Zhao Yun seized the opportunity, and the counter-scale gun hit Lu Wen's gun hard, and immediately hit Lu Wen so much that his blood was churning, and the spear was almost uncontrollable, but Zhao Yun was unforgiving, and the anti-scale gun was swung continuously, "Ping-pong!" Ping! Ping-pong ping-pong! When the reverse scale spear slammed to the seventh blow, Lu Wen's spear finally couldn't grasp it, and flew away, Zhao Yun took the opportunity to pounce, the ape arm was lightly extended, and he saw Lu Wen holding his waist up, "Come on!" After falling heavily, several Xiliang iron riders rushed up and tied Wen Lu strongly.
After Zhao Yun caught Lu Wen, Zhang Ren and Li Quan had already led the remnants of the army out of the encirclement, fled over the mountains and mountains, Zhao Yun did not chase after Jia Xu's instructions, but led the troops to the Yizhou camp to respond to the impact of the Yizhou camp, and that Lu Wen was very unlucky to be ordered by Zhao Yun to be escorted to Hanzhong, and he would have an even more unlucky fate.
If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter "Ji Poor Jia Meng Guan"