Chapter 18 Reversal
Shi Wansui put down the strong bow in his hand and looked at the Anzhou army's spear formation, sighed regretfully, and then jumped off the human wall, Fang Cai's arrow almost killed the enemy's spear formation.
"Shi Wansui, aren't you boasting that you have 100 shots and 100 hits in archery?" A team member next to him sneered and said, "Didn't you shoot?" ”
"The last general missed," Shi Wansui said.
"Rubbish!"
There was a sound of ridicule around Shi Wansui, who was holding a strong bow, and the green tendons on his left hand were exposed and then disappeared, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The last general made everyone laugh."
"Long live Shi, you are not a general now, but an ordinary soldier like me, don't become the last general in the future!" The team left a word and said nothing.
The sound of the horn sounded by the Anzhou army on the opposite side attracted everyone's attention, and they saw the Anzhou army begin to advance towards their side.
"Stop them, the marshal has an order to kill those who dare to retreat!" The generals of the overseer array shouted loudly, and when they saw that their soldiers were obviously afraid of the spear formation of the Anzhou army, they hurriedly put pressure on them.
"Hold it up for a while, and when the cavalry of the army breaks through the formation, the Anzhou rebels will be finished!"
Shi Wansui put away the bow and arrows, pulled out his saber and looked at the approaching Anzhou army in front of him, he looked at the banner of the Chinese army in the spear formation and silently made up his mind: "I just dodged an arrow for you, and this time I will cut off your head with my own hands!" ’
Then you can regain your title by virtue of your military exploits! ’
In early June, Shi Wansui's official position was still that of a general and the title of Duke of Taiping County, but a sudden change changed all this: the emperor's father-in-law, Sima Zhen, colluded with the 'puppet Zhou' prime minister Wei Chi Hui to launch a mutiny in Chang'an City in response to the western attack on the puppet Zhou army in Luoyang.
The mutiny was still being planned and was extinguished by Prime Minister Yang Jian, which originally had nothing to do with Shi Wansui, but his close friend, the general Er Zhuji, fell into it.
Although there is no direct evidence in the hands of the prime minister to prove that Shi Wansui is related to the rebellion, Shi Wansui was still deposed because of this, and he was about to be assigned to the Western Regions frontier as a pawn.
Liang Shiyan knew that his ability was good, so he pleaded with Prime Minister Yang Jian to let him get a chance, but this time it was the opportunity to go south to quell the rebellion, and if he didn't make a contribution, he would honestly go to the frontier and drink the northwest wind.
Shi Wansui was unwilling, he did not participate in the rebellion, but he lost his military position and title because of it, so he thought about 'resurrection'.
Therefore, in the fierce battle just now, he wanted to use the archery technique of a hundred steps to shoot the main general in the spear formation of the Anzhou army, because this is flat land, there is no commanding height, and there are crowds everywhere, so he finally said that the team is letting a few colleagues build a human wall, and then climb up by himself to take the opportunity to snipe the other general.
But it was only a momentary opportunity, there were archers in the chariot in the spear array, hiding behind the carriage and aiming around, shooting their own birds, Shi Wansui was lucky, and as soon as he climbed the human wall, he saw several general-like people in the spear formation, surrounding the middle one.
A distance of one hundred steps was not a problem for Shi Wansui, he did not hesitate to aim at the other party, Pang released an arrow, but was pushed away by one of his side, and his success fell short.
As he was distracted, Shi Wansui heard a panic all around, and when he looked up, it turned out to be the big crossbow on the chariot in the spear array of the Anzhou army, firing many strange things, and bursts of white mist rose in his own crowd.
Then, many soldiers of the Zhengnan Army shrouded in white fog fell to the ground with their hands on their throats and rolled on the ground in pain, and the Anzhou army on the opposite side then beat drums and advanced to cover up.
In the face of the increasingly high morale of the Anzhou army, they can no longer support it, especially the spear array that is advancing step by step, there is no way to break through, and now the other party is even more unstoppable with the help of poisonous smoke.
The white mist soon dissipated, but it had already drained most of the morale of the soldiers of the Southern Army, and the Anzhou spear formation, under the cover of the other comrades on both wings, marched forward to the beat of the drum, stabbing anyone who dared to stand in the way to the ground.
But this was not a reason to retreat, under the supervision of the generals, the soldiers of the Convoy Army burst out with the last courage, the archers struggled to draw their bows, and the enemy archers on the chariots in the pikes fired at each other, suppressing each other at the cost of one for one or even two for one.
More soldiers found shields and formed a shield formation to meet the spear formation of the Anzhou army, and behind them were comrades with short arms, waiting to get close to the spear formation and rushed forward to fight hand-to-hand.
For a while, more and more people gathered in front of the Anzhou Army's spear array, and the soldiers were waiting for a big explosion to break through the opponent's spear array with their flesh and blood.
Just as the two sides were about to make contact, the spear array broke out first: more than a dozen soldiers of the Anzhou Army with big shoulders and round waists and two armors walked out of the queue, and they ripped off the ropes on the clay pots in their hands and immediately threw them into the middle of the crowd of the southern army.
More than ten flames rose in the crowd, and in an instant, a sea of fire appeared in the place where the two sides were fighting, and in the spreading fire of the burning body, countless people were on fire all over their bodies, wailing and fleeing in all directions, and then ignited others, and the soldiers of the Southern Army who were densely formed were instantly engulfed by the spreading fire.
Not far away, Liang Shiyan, the marshal of the Zhengnan Army, who was surrounded by his troops and commanded the battle, looked at the fire in front of him in a daze, and the remnants of the Anzhou Army who had been surrounded before and the soldiers of the Zhengnan Army who surrounded them were also dumbfounded and looked at the skyrocketing fire.
Even the soldiers on both wings of the Anzhou Army's spear array looked at this or were stunned, in terms of fire alone, this was not as good as the fire that cut off the Anzhou Army in the camp before, but there were many more people who died in the fire.
Because the soldiers of the Southern Army were intensively forming formations and preparing to resist the spear formation, it had reached the point of crowding, and I don't know how many people were turned into ashes under this fire.
The fire gradually subsided, and a disgusting smell rushed towards them, and countless people couldn't control their retching when they looked at the tragic situation in front of them and smelled the burnt smell.
"Do you want to eat human flesh?" Yu Wenwen looked at the disgusting scene in front of him with an expressionless face, and Xu Shao and Fifth Brother Chen beside him looked at him with pale faces and shook their heads.
As the culprit who single-handedly contributed to such a tragic situation, Yu Wenwen did not regret it at all, did not regret using all the fire oil bombs, did not regret taking thousands of lives with such cruel means, and did not regret facing a personal coke in front of him.
The cold arrow that almost succeeded in the formation woke him up, making him wake up from the gains and losses, and Yuwenwen remembered the Zhao Wang Yuwen move in Chang'an City who failed to assassinate Yang Jian because of the gains and losses.
Before the prey arrived, he thought about how to eat it, and he didn't have the qualifications to think about it!
In case the Anzhou army is defeated, it will be all over, and the imperial army will go all the way south, and the officials of An, Xiang, and Huang who used to be smiling and welcoming will turn their faces sooner or later, and everyone else can surrender, but Yuwenliang, Yu Wenming, and Yuwenwen father and son can not surrender.
At the end of February last year, where was the courage to die with Dusk Junyu Wenyun in the main hall? Where did the courage to go to Beijiang Prefecture in May to assassinate Shi Yamen and seize power? Where is the courage to die with Yang Jian on the streets of Chang'an in August?
I can't let go of a few small bucks after making a few small bucks, so why don't I have to wait for my family to be ruined and my wife to become someone else's plaything and then regret it?
Yu Wenwen was extremely disgusted by his previous gains and losses, so he decided to go all out: "Beat the drums, and the whole army will assault." ”
"Kill those who don't surrender, kill those who dare to resist, and kill all those who stand in front of the military formation!"
The drums sounded, the spear array moved, the pikemen slowly advanced to the drumbeat, and the soldiers of the Southern Army who stood in front of the gun array were stabbed to the ground by them mercilessly.
The soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army had just engaged this impenetrable spear array, first they were knocked down by the strange white mist, and then they were burned to pieces by the terrifying arson method, and now the other party pushed them straight back, and they could no longer resist it.
Whether the court wins or loses, it has nothing to do with them, anyway, no matter who is in power, it still depends on the lives of these soldiers, and they die meaninglessly here, what should the children in the family do?
The spear array broke through many blocks, and the advance led the Anzhou army soldiers on both wings, and the entire front was only stunned by the southern army at the beginning, and then it broke through in an all-round way under the spear formation.
The defeat was like a mountain, and the generals of the overseer could no longer stop the rout of the soldiers, and they were forced by the Anzhou army to collapse and turn around and run north.
Marshal Liang Shiyan of Zhengnan was hoarse and the command generals stopped the decline, and he couldn't understand what kind of master the Anzhou army could use to make so many means.
In today's decisive battle, in order to prevent the opponent's possible presence of powerful ordnance, he and the commanders set a deceitful strategy, and everything went smoothly at first, and the advance of the pursuing troops of the Anzhou army and the cavalry on its right flank were intercepted and could not move.
Then the 20,000 cavalry invested began to carry out the second step: beheading and disrupting the Anzhou army array, using 10,000 cavalry to entangle the cavalry on the left wing of the Anzhou army, and then another elite cavalry unit rushed into the Anzhou army formation and turned the world upside down, and then the two thousand cavalry directly attacked the Anzhou Chinese army and killed the enemy commander Yu Wenliang.
But now all failed, the first to attack the Chinese army was a thousand cavalry led by his leader Liang Mo, Liang Shiyan saw from afar that they had already entered the banner of the Chinese army commander in the desperate impact, but finally there was no movement.
Then there was the 1,000 cavalry on the left of Tu Wanxu, the governor of Jingzhou, who was inexplicably blocked by a burst of white mist before they rushed to the Chinese army, and then collapsed.
Yang Su, the head of the march, and others led thousands of cavalry to rush into the big formation and stir around, and the effect was not bad just now, but since the defenders of the Hexi camp were dispatched, the situation has changed.
They gathered the panicked soldiers together, and the Anzhou army array, which was about to collapse, was now stabilized again, and the spear array went all the way north to try to support the encircled Anzhou army soldiers.
During the march, the pikes harassed their cavalry and tried to force the opponent to stop, but as a result, the crossbows fired from the chariots accompanying them created a large amount of white mist, causing the cavalry to lose hundreds of them.
They marched all the way and gathered a large number of soldiers to accompany them, the pressure of their own cavalry increased greatly, and they were slowly forced out of the Anzhou army array, and after the spear array approached here, they not only gathered soldiers who were disturbed by the fire and their own dead soldiers, but also beat the ambush soldiers to heavy casualties in one fell swoop.
"Yu Wenliang, how many means do you still have to use!" Liang Shiyan was unwilling to look at the vague Anzhou military marshal banner in the distance and muttered to himself, he was unwilling to be defeated in the hands of the mediocre Yu Wenliang.
If there was no white fog, how could he face such a situation without this endless arson method, although now it seems that the two sides are inseparable, but as a veteran, Liang Shiyan knows that his side has lost.
The strategy of deception is to win in danger, and now that all their means have been exhausted but they have failed to defeat the other party in one fell swoop, then the next counterattack will be helpless, because the other party should still have reinforcements from Xiangzhou.
The two sides are fighting together and their own side cannot win or retreat, and the opponent's reinforcements will be defeated if they are thrown into battle.
Yang Su, the head of the march, led the cavalry to rush left and right in the Anzhou army formation, but was gradually squeezed out of the periphery by the Anzhou army soldiers gathered by the generals, and he couldn't help but be impatient when he saw that the Anzhou army formation was gradually stabilizing.
Looking back to the north, I saw that my ambush had collapsed, and the culprit was the spear phalanx.
"If you knew this was the case, you should have made a decision immediately!" Yang Su gritted his teeth and muttered to himself, the cavalry led by his subordinate Yang Liu had failed to harass the spear formation, and the other party had gone all the way north to support the ambushed soldiers of the Anzhou Army.
Yesterday, it was this spear array that caused me heavy losses, and I never thought that today it would be a good thing for this spear array!
Yang Su has already noticed the banner of this team, and the word 'Yuwen' can be seen on it, and there are only three people surnamed Yuwen in the Anzhou rebels: Yuwen Liang and his eldest son Yu Wenming and second son Yu Wenwen.
He knew that Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, was in charge of the Chinese army, so the spear array should be led by one of Yu Wenming and Yu Wenwen, and it was said that Yu Wenming, who was appointed as the assassin of Xiangzhou, should not be here, so it should be that Yu Wenwen, who is not in the climate, is in the array.
Yu Wenwen stayed in Chang'an from the end of July to the middle of October last year, Yang Su heard rumors that this person spent all day drinking, profligate and talking, but his brain did not act in tune, and he was in trouble every day, and it was really unbelievable that this waste was leading the army.
"Boss, boss!" A cavalryman shouted to Yang Su with a panicked face, "Reinforcements from Anzhou have arrived!" ”
When Yang Su heard this, he looked up and saw a large cloud of dust raised behind the left wing of the Anzhou Army, which was a common scene when the cavalry was running in a group, but after hesitating for a moment, he gave the order: "The whole army retreats!" ”
"But retreat without the marshal's order, and afterwards the military law" A cavalry cautiously reminded that it was a big crime to retreat without listening to the order.
"What's the matter, the manager will take care of it!" Yang Su immediately decided, a qualified general must make a decision when the battle situation is already clear, and there is no need to wait until the end to lose a mess to regret it.
The opponent's reinforcements have come, and his side will undoubtedly be defeated, and he thinks that it is meaningless to stay on the battlefield and continue to fight when his side is bound to lose, since he is defeated, he must keep the elite troops as much as possible, especially the cavalry.
Under Yang Su's order, the cavalry left the battlefield and turned their horses to gallop north, and at this moment, the horn of retreat sounded in the middle army of the southern army, and it seemed that Liang Shiyan, the marching marshal, also had the same idea as Yang Su.
Looking back at the reinforcements of the Anzhou Army, Yang Su smiled bitterly and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Originally, it was possible to solve Yuwenliang before the enemy reinforcements arrived."