Huyang Battle II
Thousands of yellow turbans with sandbags, gravel, and tree trunks were thrown into the moat in front of the city gate, and arrows rained down on the city, because the troops who attacked the city wall could not open the situation for a long time, Han Zhong simply ordered to temporarily stop the siege and began to fill the moat with all his might.
Countless Yellow Turban soldiers took soil on the spot, and those Yellow Turban wrestlers did not throw stones at the city wall, and began to throw stones into the moat, and if the stones were not enough, they even threw the corpses of the Yellow Turban soldiers who died before into the moat.
Wen Qi stood on the city wall and watched the scene below, this rushing car was like a tank, equipped with a huge wooden shield to block arrows and wood, once the moat was filled, the city gate could not last long.
Gao Shun also had a serious face, as long as these Yellow Turban soldiers kept digging up stones and dirt, and then thrown into the moat by the Yellow Turban wrestlers, it was only a matter of time before the moat was filled.
Wen Qi naturally couldn't sit still, the Yellow Turban Army concentrated on attacking the West Gate and the North Gate, the South Gate and the East Gate only had some scouts to reconnoitre, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led only 2,000 cavalry from the East Gate to go around, and the others began to demolish the buildings in the city, and the dismantled stone and wood were sent to the West Gate and the North Gate to seal the city gate.
The Yellow Turbans were shot dead by more than 1,000 people while filling the moat, and then they did not rush up recklessly, but the Yellow Turban wrestlers threw stones and mud bags at them, and did not enter the range of the archers, leaving the defenders to stare dryly.
In this way, the Yellow Turban Army under the city began to stop attacking and waited for the Yellow Turban Lux to fill the river, and the defenders of the city had nothing to do.
"Report to your lordship, a group of cavalry from the east gate is coming this way."
Han Zhong stood on the high platform, naturally he would not inform him of all the trivial matters, and Han Zhong was in the West Gate, and Wenqi's cavalry was here to harass the troops at the North Gate.
As soon as the centurion in charge of the north gate received the information from the scout, he turned his head and saw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei coming here with two thousand cavalry, which were also war horses, and most of Wenqi's war horses were the northern war horses collected from Youzhou or given by Huangfu Song at that time, which were much better than the horses of the Yellow Turban Scout.
"You only came to report when the enemy army arrived, and someone dragged me down and cut it down!" The centurion rebuked, and another scout was sacrificed to heaven.
"Send a cavalry team to destroy them for me!"
Although the cavalry of the Yellow Turban Army was scarce, the 70,000-strong troops also gathered 4,000 Yellow Turban cavalry.
The Yellow Turban cavalry did not participate in the siege of the city, and they were all lined up, so they could go into battle as soon as they received the order.
Because now the Yellow Turban Army is busy filling the river and no one is attacking the city, so that Gao Shun has time to command the cavalry on the city wall.
Gao Shun waved the black flag representing retreat, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each turned around and retreated with a thousand cavalry.
Four thousand Yellow Turban cavalry went out together, it looked really spectacular, and when the officers and soldiers saw themselves, they ran away, and thought that the other party was afraid of themselves, and began to pursue at full speed, but as soon as they ran, the quality of the horses was uneven, and the riding skills were not fine, and the cavalry was far away from Wenqi, and there were many lone cavalry.
After Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led the troops backward for a while, they saw Gao Shun's cyan flag waving, pointing at the rushing Yellow Turban Cavalry, so they stopped and relined the Yellow Turban Cavalry.
Gao Shun on the city wall stared at the movement of the Yellow Turban cavalry, his own cavalry had already finished plating, the red order flag representing the advance and attack was raised, and everyone, including Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, held their weapons tightly and prepared to attack.
The Yellow Turban cavalry is getting closer and closer, and it seems that they are charging again at this moment, this distance can no longer maximize the impact of the cavalry, Guan Yu looked at Gao Shun in the city, and the red order flag of the attack did not fall for a long time.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei glanced at each other, asking if the other party wanted to lead the charge by himself.
The red order flag in Gao Shun's hand became two, waved left and right, and then pointed forward, signaling for Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to each lead a troop, separate left and right, and then move forward.
Zhang Fei and Guan Yu were a little puzzled, they could avoid the impact of the Yellow Turban cavalry by separating the left and right, but after that, wouldn't these Yellow Turban cavalry have to follow behind him, even if they could get rid of them with their speed in the end, it would only be a waste of the horse's physical strength.
Zhang Fei wanted to start the attack on his own initiative, Guan Yu thought about it for a while, and persuaded Zhang Fei that Gao Shun stood on the city wall, condescending to see the overall situation, and when his tactics were not effective, it would not be too late for him to play on the spot.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei each separated with a thousand cavalry, avoiding a head-on battle with the Yellow Turban cavalry, and then rushed forward in the direction of the Lingqi, and those Yellow Turban cavalry also turned around and divided into two units to pursue behind.
The two red flags moved forward, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei rushed forward with the cavalry, and the two red ones were combined into one by Gao Shun, and the two cavalry were also recombined into one.
Gao Shun put away the red order flag, and the drums in the city were loud, which made Guan Zhang and the two of them charge forward all the time, and then commanded the battle on the spot, Guan Yu suddenly understood.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei led two thousand cavalry to the Yellow Turban Army formation under the northern city.
"Spearmen line up quickly, Yellow Turban wrestlers hurry up, go and intercept them." The centurion in charge of the north gate shouted, he thought that his Yellow Turban cavalry would not win, but he did not expect this officer to return so quickly.
Only a small part of the pikemen had time to rush to the formation, and all the yellow turban wrestlers were throwing stones in front of them to fill the moat, separated by the vast sea of people, when would they arrive.
Guan Yu took the lead in the charge, the Blue Dragon Glaive Knife waved, and the level 6 whirlwind slash was released strongly, a blue light flashed, and the dozen or so pikemen in front of Guan Yu were all cut in half.
"Yanren Zhang Fei is here!" Zhang Fei roared and activated, so frightened that those panicked Yellow Turban soldiers couldn't even hold their knives steadily.
With Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as the breakthrough point, the two thousand cavalry entered the sheepfold like a pack of wolves, and the powerful impact of the war horse instantly trampled on countless Yellow Turban Army, plus swords and spears, these two thousand cavalry frantically harvested human heads, and the Yellow Turban Army was crying wolf.
The Yellow Turban cavalry who originally followed behind made a difficulty, and the cavalry team of this official army entered the Yellow Turban Army formation, and these Yellow Turban cavalry would not also impact their own formation.
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei took these two thousand cavalry to kill from the east to the west, and then ran for a while to speed up the war horses, and after gathering and turning around, they killed again again.
"Coming back?"
The centurion was a little desperate, the pikemen had just run to the east, these cavalry had already killed from the west, and they had come back, the Yellow Turban wrestlers couldn't keep up, and the only one who could defeat this cavalry team was the Yellow Turban Warlock, but they were all summoned by Han Zhong to the West Gate, and if they continued like this, wouldn't their troops have all been scattered.
As soon as the cavalry of the official army came back, the Yellow Turban Army in the west lost their armor and began to flee frantically, and even made their troops into a mess.
The Yellow Turban Army around them fled everywhere, Guan Yu did not chase after them, but began to accelerate towards those Yellow Turban Cavalry, and the other party also found that the official cavalry was coming towards him, rushing in for fear of hurting his own people, and standing stupidly would be hit head-on, so he simply turned around and retreated.
However, the disadvantage of the horses made these Yellow Turban cavalry not long to be overtaken, and the cavalry at the back of the team began to be killed one after another, and seeing that they were waiting for death to run down, these Yellow Turban cavalry simply scattered in a hurry and fled in all directions.
If Guan Yu and Zhang Fei also dispersed the cavalry to chase and kill them, these Yellow Turban cavalry saved those Yellow Turban troops outside the northern city, Guan Yu naturally would not do this, after the Yellow Turban cavalry dispersed, they would assemble into an army, and it would not be enough for half an hour, and the spearhead would turn to the Yellow Turban army in the north of the city.
"Pikemen, pikemen, why haven't they been in a column for so long!" The centurion cried out heartbreakingly.
It's not that these pikemen don't want to be in columns, they follow the cavalry of the official army everywhere, and those Yellow Turban troops who were killed and routed are fleeing everywhere, and the whole camp is already in chaos, how can they still form columns, simply these spearmen also run away.
At this moment, only the Yellow Turban Divine Envoy could give them a sense of security, and these people involuntarily ran towards the Han Zhong Great Array at the West Gate.
"Give up the north gate, and the whole army will go to the west gate!" Han Zhong stood on the high platform and had already seen the situation at the north gate, so he immediately gave up the north gate, and even if the moat of the north gate was filled, no one would be able to attack the city.
The Yellow Turban Army in the north of the city, who received the order, rushed to the west of the city, and even those Yellow Turban wrestlers dropped their rushing cars, gave up filling the river, and walked towards Han Zhong's big array.
"Scouts misunderstand me, scouts misunderstand me!" The centurion who was in charge of the attack at the north gate looked up to the sky and roared, looking at the defeated army that had lost its armor and abandoned its armor, and this centurion didn't know how to explain to Han Zhong.
However, Zhang Fei had already relieved his troubles, stabbed him in the heart with a spear, and began to lead the troops to chase and kill the Yellow Turban Army, and finally Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's cavalry team rushed into battle and killed more than 4,000 people, and chased and killed 3,000 people all the way, until they chased Han Zhong's big array, the other party had already set up a rejection horse, lined up the spears, and the Yellow Turban Warlock was in place, before turning back, and he lost a total of less than 300 cavalry.