Chapter 8: Gao Ping (2)
On 11 March, the two armies met and finally set up a battle.
After surviving the mountains and the long road, it is just to meet the soldiers. Gaoping, in the Warring States period a long time ago, it still had a name, called Changping. The Qin general Bai Qi and the Zhao army soldiers who claimed to be 400,000 were unforgettable. The situation of the mountains and rivers in this place is inherently a battlefield, and I am afraid that there has been more than one battle of Changping.
The weather is sunny and the sun is shining.
On the uneven wilderness, 100,000 Northern Han Khitan coalition troops, as well as tens of thousands of Zhou troops, spread out in the north and south, black and oppressive like ant colonies, and like huge waves cascading in.
After the confrontation, no one knows exactly when it started; It seems that there is a fight in front from the beginning. Where the two armies fought, countless men and horses were frightened away in confusion, and the arrows flying in the air seemed to be a torrential rain on a clear sky.
Guo Shao looked at it, a forest of long weapons and iron armor, and the dust was billowing and he couldn't see the head and tail. Being in it, he didn't know how the Zhou army was deployed, and it seemed that there was no need for a ten general to be clear, only that this side should be behind the right wing of the Zhou army.
However, he knew very well that this battle was about the survival of the country and had a great impact! If you want to climb up, the Battle of Gaoping is the best time; Before the war, he was mentally prepared to seek opportunities to make meritorious contributions to the fore...... But soon this desire was diluted by an even stronger sense of fear and desire to survive.
The whimpering horn and the dense black dots in the air opened the prelude to the attack of the Northern Han army. In the dust and fog and the sound of killing, the horse's hooves roared, as if there were ambushes on ten sides and thousands of troops and horses were killing from all directions, and the enemy soldiers could be frightened without seeing them.
The battle in front of him has probably become white-hot, Guo Shao can't see it, and the war has not spread here for the time being. Only the northeast wind blows in the face, and the sand and stones fly in the whistling sound, and the sand and gravel hit the face and cause pain, and the dust is blown by the wind, so that people can't open their eyes.
The situation on the battlefield is ever-changing, and as soon as Guo Shao opened his eyes, he suddenly found that the cavalry of the Zhou army in front of him had been defeated! A large group of horsemen on the flanks ran in the opposite direction, the sound of horses' hooves "rumbling ......", and the cavalry of the Zhou army fled in formation. After a while, there was an earth-shattering shout, and then countless infantry troops turned around and rushed towards this side, and the crowd threw away their armor and did not form a queue, which was really embarrassing to the extreme.
"!" Seeing this, Guo Shao blurted out and scolded.
The countless chaotic soldiers of the Zhou army that had been routed in front were wrenched into the army formation of the small bottom army, and the front line of the command was in chaos. The small bottom army belongs to the Praetorian Guard of the Front Division of the Palace, and it is an elite army, and it will not collapse at all, but its own people rushing in a mess have already frustrated its forward edge. Guo Shao remembered that the Battle of Gaoping should have been a victory in the Later Zhou Dynasty, but he couldn't remember the historical details; But looking at the current situation, how can it be a sign of defeat?
"Poof"! The left side of his face suddenly felt hot, and when he turned his head, he saw a bloody arrow piercing through the neck of an acquaintance, with torn flesh on it, and blood splattered his head and face. Guo Shao was stunned, and his throat couldn't help but squirm.
When he looked up, his scalp was numb, and the air looked like someone had stabbed a hornet's nest, and like a swarm of locusts that had eaten everything. In an instant, there was a hail of "jingle bells", and people kept falling.
"Kill! Kill the ......" The continuous shouts in the sound of the horse's hooves were like a tsunami, and countless heavy armored cavalry broke through the dust and swept in, and the chaotic soldiers in front were chased into chaos, and the chickens and dogs jumped and scattered, only caring for their lives. The infantry of Guo Shao's side was chaotic, and they were quickly torn apart from the front by the heavy cavalry, and the infantry army suddenly formed an array.
I can't bear to look at this battle in front of me...... Guo Shao was 14 to 18 years old, practicing more than six hours a day for four years, holding a bow, setting up arrows, aiming, and persevering; Boring and hard, rain or shine; At least a hundred times a day, a few movements, repeated one hundred or two hundred thousand times. These, just to go into battle to be shot through by an arrow or hacked to death with a knife?
At this time, I heard Huang Dutou's voice shouting: "Brothers, retreat one after another!" ”
Seeing this, Guo Shao also hurriedly waved his hand and beckoned his soldiers to retreat. A large group of people were swarming and retreating southward, and suddenly they heard a loud shout, "Let the public be attacked by the enemy, and use my generation!" The Retreater, Slash! ”
Looking up, a general not far away immediately slashed, and the ironclad cavalry surrounded the left and right, and the defeated soldiers who were crowded forward were immediately killed several people in a row. The army was frightened, and the rout stopped. When Guo Shao heard the word "Chengyu", he stretched his neck and looked back, and sure enough, he saw that the banner of the Zhou Dynasty was in sight, and the emperor's honor guard was faintly visible among thousands of troops!
The depressed mood was inexplicably ignited again. The emperor is nearby, he will see the performance of the soldiers?
When it was, I heard someone shouting: "Zhang Yuanhui, the first fierce general of the Han army, is here!" Who fights for the official family! ”
The army looked at the front of the formation, and sure enough, a member of the Northern Han Dynasty led a heavy armored iron cavalry to drive forward, and went straight into the depth of the Zhou army. The dust kicked up by the cavalry spread, like a violently burning ***, about to detonate the entire battlefield!
Guo Shao reached over from his shoulder and touched the two-stone strong bow that shot the rabbit, an extremely familiar weapon, which made him suddenly have an intuition: Meritorious service is today! Years of torment, countless dreams of anticipation, if this situation is missed, it will be regretted thousands of times!
The fierce general who rushed left and right and suddenly entered no man's land should be Zhang Yuanhui, the general of the Northern Han Dynasty, and no one could stop him wherever he went. The left and right flanks were all well-armored pro-soldiers, all of them were so fierce that they couldn't protect the general in the middle. They were clothed in heavy armor, and their horses were clothed in iron armor; The arrows beckoned, but most of them were blocked by their own soldiers, and they could not wear their armor.
Guo Shao stared at Zhang Yuanhui in the cavalry, took the arrow feather, and gently put on the bowstring. The Iron Rider finally got into the range of the side front, the best angle.
The tendons were pulled apart with great force, and the bowstring tightened in the air. This moment made Guo Shao feel extraordinarily long, he could clearly feel his breathing, and the eyes, arrows, and targets seemed to have been integrated into a whole...... Guo Shao felt that he had become Zhang Yuanhui, and he was rising and falling rhythmically with the war horse, and he could feel the direction of the war horse's sprint.
At the most appropriate moment in his intuition, he suddenly realized that the wind had somehow turned into a tailwind, and everything was so perfect, so perfect that it was touching! No hesitation without any reason, "bang"! The sound of violent strings rang in my ears.
The speeding arrows, full of hopes and dreams, pierced the air in a high-profile manner and rushed forward. Guo Shao seemed to hear a snort, he couldn't see or hear the sound in the dust, and inexplicably felt that the arrows had pierced the flesh of the man's neck.
Sure enough, I saw that the general fell off the horse directly. The lone cavalry seemed to lose momentum at once, the charge stopped, and some knights dismounted in a panic to save the man. The fiercely burning fuse of the battlefield seems to have been extinguished by a scoop of water.
Guo Shao glared excitedly and shouted: "Whoever killed Zhang Yuanhui, Guo Shao of the small bottom army!" ”
There were no soldiers around to cheer for him, and then Guo Shao suddenly realized that his side had been scattered by the heavy cavalry, and he didn't even notice it just now. The generals have been divided into scattered pieces by the storm, waiting for the cavalry to condescendingly slaughter! All kinds of screams, shouts and fights around you, whether you want to shout or beg for mercy, will be drowned out in it, and it is useless; People are like a tide and dust, and it doesn't matter if you're shivering with fear or pretending to be awe-inspiring.
Looking up, I saw a crowd of people, countless swords flying and flashing sharply in the crowd, and the whole wilderness was like a big pot of boiling water, and people were like fish and shrimp struggling desperately in the boiling water. The dust above seemed to be covered with a layer of blood mist, making the eastern sun look blurry like a delicate cloud of blood hanging on it.
The ground is shaking! Guo Shao only felt that his head was swollen and "buzzing". "!" A burst of cheers was like an initiation, and he was shocked to come back to his senses.
The person who drank was not far away Yang Biao, Yang Biao and Guo Shao had contradictions, but at this time, he could still see familiar people, Guo Shao was relieved in his heart, in the end, it was his own person! I saw Yang Biao pick up the long-handled iron knife and pick the side of the cavalry saber, and the heavy steel hit the sparks and splashed...... I didn't expect this fight to be so fierce, and he actually took on the heavy cavalry with the body of a single soldier in foot combat.
"Let's go!" Yang Biao burst into a shout again, and quickly swung his weapon to strike from left to right, and immediately stabbed into the waist of the cavalry on the right.
At this moment, Guo Shao suddenly pulled out his bow quickly, and the arrow was aimed at Yang Biao, "Bang!" Without hesitation, the sound of the bowstring sounded. Suddenly, Yang Biao's face was like ashes...... The arrows on the battle array are not long-sighted. This is what he said himself.
When he threatens to stab him in the back, he becomes a threat to others. No one in the world is afraid of anyone, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred, everything has a price!
"Whoosh!" The sharp arrow flew towards Yang Biao's face at a distance of a few steps with a strong wind. The arrows almost grazed his helmet! Yang Biao's pale face was stunned for a moment, and then he turned his head to look, only to see an enemy soldier behind him standing there with a long knife in both hands, and an arrow stuck in the middle of his forehead. Then it fell limply like a lifeless sack.
Yang Biao turned his head and glanced at Guo Shao with a complicated look. The surrounding swords and swords didn't have a chance to say anything, Guo Shao looked at him and nodded slightly, everything was silent.
He hurriedly approached Guo Shao, "General Guo, I'm ......" as if he was going to say something, but at this time, he swooped up again and slanted desperately.
In a hurry, Guo Shao dodged backwards, and instinctively picked up the bow in his hand to block, and the bow was split into two with a "click". Guo Shao did not hesitate, and while throwing away the bad bow, he drew his saber smoothly.
The enemy soldier was about to cut a second sword, but was immediately slapped off his horse by Yang Biao's long-handled iron knife. "Bang!" The heavily armored knight couldn't get up when he fell to the ground, so Guo Shao immediately jumped up and stepped on his abdomen, and raised the barrier knife with both hands to stab the scale armor on the enemy's chest...... The enemy soldier's mouth was wide open, his eyes wide, and his eyes were full of despair.
Guo Yang and the two immediately turned their backs to each other and waited for each other, without discussion or hesitation, and they were completely unanimous.
The back on the battlefield can only be handed over to a trusted brother.