Chapter 663: The Battle of Liyang

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Of the 100,000 Liu Yongjun, 80,000 had crossed the Yellow River and reached the north bank when the sky was just dawning. With so many people, all crowded into the Liyang Ferry, the whole scene seemed chaotic.

Liu Fang and Dong Li stood on a high place, looking at the crowded ferry, Liu Fang said: "General Dong, pass the order, after transporting the remaining 20,000 soldiers across the river, immediately transport the baggage, and transport the armor first!" ”

As he spoke, he looked up at the sky and said, "Strive to let the soldiers wear armor before the sky is bright, and then break through to Liyang, capture Liu Xiu alive, and annihilate Liu Xiu's army outside the city!" ”

Dong Li agreed and conveyed Liu Fang's order.

Just as the remaining 20,000 Liu Yongjun were about to cross the river, suddenly, a sharp whistle came from outside the Liyang Ferry. An arrow rang out into the sky, and the whistle was long and sharp, and it was heard far away.

Liu Fang and the generals of Dongli didn't understand what was going on, and subconsciously looked up at the sky.

In the gap between them and their stunned, outside the ferry, shouts and shouts were everywhere. Liu Fang's body shook suddenly, and he hurriedly asked, "What's going on outside?" Why is there such a mess? ”

Dong Li and other generals were also at a loss, not knowing what was going on.

At this moment, a soldier rode over on horseback, and when Liu Fang and the others approached, they didn't care about getting off their horses to report, and directly intervened on the horse to salute, and said urgently: "General, the big thing is not good, there are a lot of enemy troops killed outside the ferry!" ”

"Huh?" Liu Fang and the others all gasped. Everyone looked at each other with surprise on their faces. Liu Fang asked, "How many enemy troops are there?" ”

"I can't see clearly, the enemy army has a large number of troops, no less than tens of thousands!"

"That's nonsense! Here in Liyang, how can there be tens of thousands of enemy troops? ”

Liu Fang raised his hand, grasped the hilt of the saber under his ribs, and reprimanded sharply: "Come back and report after the investigation is clear!" If you dare to lie about the military situation again, disturb the hearts of our army, and kill them! ”

The soldier who reported the news was so frightened that he said yes in fear, turned the dock, and ran out of the ferry.

During the period of marching to Liyang, Liu Fang has always sent a large number of spies to investigate the situation in Liyang.

In the past month, although the county soldiers from all counties of Wei County have been assembling in Liyang, the daily casualties are also very large, and the strength of Liu Xiu's army outside Liyang has never exceeded 10,000 people.

Now the soldiers below said that there were tens of thousands of enemy troops outside the ferry to attack, of course Liu Fang didn't believe it, so many enemy troops, could it still fall from the sky?

In fact, the soldiers who reported the news did not lie, and Liu Xiujun, who attacked the Liyang Ferry, did have tens of thousands of people. What Liu Fang didn't know was that the situation he was investigating was just a scene played by Liu Xiu and Li Yang.

Zhang Yi, Sun Cheng and his eight thousand subordinates have all been captured alive, and Liyang has not been captured by them at all, and is still firmly controlled by Liu Xiu.

This month, Liu Xiu and Li Yang had a hard time, and it was all an illusion. The spies sent by Liu Fang did not dare to get too close to the battlefield at all, so they could only hide in the distance and look from afar. Liu Xiujun's siege of Liyang was fought from the morning every day

It was late, but the thunder was loud and the rain was small, and the two sides did not really fight at all, and even the arrows shot did not have arrows. The 'corpses' and 'wounded soldiers' carried down are also fake.

However, it is true that Liu Xiu mobilized the county soldiers from various counties of Wei County to gather in Liyang. With the arrival of batches of county soldiers in Liyang, the strength of Liu Xiu's side has also increased from the original 20,000 to more than 40,000.

Liu Xiu's army that attacked Liyang Ferry this time, 20,000 of which were the Luoyang Jingshi army under Liu Xiu's personal command, and the other 20,000 people were the Wei army led by Cho Qi.

Liu Xiu's division was fighting from west to east, and Choshi's division was fighting from east to west, and the two armies had already formed a situation of entrapment on the Liyang Ferry.

In other words, the Liyang Ferry was simply a trap that Liu Xiu and Cho Qi had already set up, just waiting for Liu Yongjun to take the initiative to jump in.

As a result, the harvest this time was too great, and Liu Yongjun, who had 80,000 people poured in at once, including Liu Yongjun's main general, Liu Fang, the king of Ning.

There is a huge difference in the strength of the two sides, Liu Xiu's side has more than 40,000 soldiers, while Liu Fang's side has more than 80,000 soldiers, and the difference in strength between the two sides is nearly doubled.

Normally, in a head-to-head confrontation with such a huge disparity in strength, the side with more people should have an absolute advantage, but the actual situation is quite the opposite.

Liu Xiujun is waiting for work, and he is fully equipped, the soldiers are strong and strong, on the other hand, on Liu Yongjun's side, most of the soldiers who fight do not even have armor, no armor, and they hold a spear in their hands. Liu Xiu personally led the Luoyang Jing Division, lined up in a neat phalanx, and advanced forward. Liu Yongjun in the Liyang ferry came out in a hurry to meet the battle, and the situation at the scene was that the soldiers could not be found, and the soldiers could not find the generals

Great strength.

Liu Yongjun didn't even fully stand in formation, and Liu Xiujun had already advanced to the firing range. The generals in the army shouted one after another: "Open your bow, put on your arrow!" ”

The archers in the army took off their longbows, drew their arrows, and twisted their bows and arrows.

"Shoot the arrowsβ€”"

At the command of the general, the archers fired arrows in unison.

There was a buzzing sound in the ear chakra, and a long arrow array rose from the top of Liu Xiujun's head and flew into the air, like a large dark cloud, and the arrow array drew a parabola in the air, whistling and smashing into Liu Yongjun's camp.

There is no shield, no shield array to block arrows, under Liu Xiujun's arrow array, Liu Yongjun's soldiers are like live targets. Poof, poof, poof! The muffled sound of arrows entering the flesh came and went.

Some of the soldiers were like hedgehogs, full of arrows, and fell to the ground, unable to move, and some of the soldiers were wounded by arrows, but they were not killed, and lay on the ground, wailing for death.

As soon as this round of arrows fell, Liu Yongjun's front army formation became a mess.

The generals were either on foot or on horseback, and they roared repeatedly: "Don't mess around! Don't mess around! Push forward! Take on the enemy! All meet the enemy ......"

While they were shouting one after another, Liu Xiujun's second round of arrows arrived.

This time, the distance between the two sides was closer, and Liu Xiujun's arrow array was more ferocious, and the arrows falling from the air were like raindrops. In Liu Yongjun, even some generals couldn't dodge and were covered by arrows.

After the arrows, there was hardly anyone standing on the ground, and the ground was like a thick layer of black grass, covering the surface and the corpses of people.

Without a shield array to protect you, letting the enemy's arrow array fall directly on your body is a complete slaughter. Liu Yongjun's soldiers resisted Liu Xiujun's arrow array and pushed forward head-on. Every time Liu Xiujun's arrow array smashed down, it would cause huge casualties to Liu Yongjun. Where Liu Yongjun advanced past, the corpses on the ground were stacked on top of each other.

Appalling. finally survived Liu Xiujun's arrow array, and the front rows of soldiers on both sides collided together, and Liu Yongjun's casualties were even greater at this time. Liu Xiujun's front row of soldiers, the front of the top are heavy shield soldiers, the back are halberd soldiers, spearmen, heavy shield soldiers composed of shield formation, can effectively resist the attack of the enemy on the opposite side, and the back halberd soldiers and spearmen can effectively kill and injure the enemy

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Compared with Liu Xiujun, Liu Yongjun's side is completely flesh and blood. Most of the spears and halberds they stabbed were hit on the shields, while the spears and halberds stabbed by Liu Xiujun pierced directly through their bodies.

As soon as the two sides came into contact, a row of people fell on Liu Yongjun's side. Liu Xiujun's soldiers stepped over the corpses of the enemy, constantly advancing forward, pressing step by step, while Liu Yongjun's soldiers on the opposite side fell row after row.

Some people were killed on the spot, and some people were injured and fell to the ground, but they didn't even have a chance to get up, so they were trampled on by Liu Xiujun, who was advancing, and they were trampled to the point that they were incomplete, and they were not human.

There is no suspense in such a battle, and it is a completely one-sided situation.

On the battlefield, Liu Yongjun did not last more than half an hour, and then he could not support it, and a large number of soldiers no longer obeyed the commands of the generals, or scattered like headless flies, or turned around and ran back.

As the saying goes, defeat is like a mountain. On a head-to-head battlefield, once one of the sides has formed a rout, it is too difficult to turn the tide and turn the tide of defeat, unless there is a sudden occurrence on the battlefield of important factors that can change the entire situation of the battle.

Seeing that the enemy army in front of him had been defeated, Liu Xiu ordered to rush forward with all his strength while continuing to maintain his own formation, and in one go, he entered the ferry and completely annihilated the enemy army.

The news of the rout in front of him continued to spread to Liu Fang. At this time, Liu Fang, sweating like rain, couldn't help muttering: "Tens of thousands of enemy troops!" Where did they come from? Where did they come from? ”

Until now, Liu Fang's head was dizzy, and he didn't understand what was going on.

Dong Li's face was pale, and he sweated more than Liu Fang, and he stammered: "King Ning, our army ...... Our officers and men lack equipment and are unable to engage the enemy head-on, or ...... Let's retreat first! ”

"Retreat?" Hearing the word retreat, Liu Fang's eyes turned red, he grabbed the collar of Dongli and asked, "Where to retreat?" ”

If he could retreat, he would have ordered the withdrawal of his troops long ago, and the key problem is that now they have no way to retreat.

Behind them is the turbulent water of the Yellow River, and what is terrible is that their boats are still transporting the remaining 20,000 soldiers to cross the river.

The timing of Liu Xiujun's attack was too good, at this point, Liu Yongjun's ships were just loaded with the last batch of soldiers and sailed towards the north bank.

Now that Liu Yongjun on the north shore has been defeated, if the ships want to pick them up, they must first transport the soldiers who have already boarded the ship back to the south shore first, and then turn back to the north shore. Is it an hour or two that is delayed by this one-and-back visit?

Dong Liang was grabbed by Liu Fang's collar, and said in a trembling voice: "King Ning, the shore...... There's also a small boat on the shore, and we're ...... We can make a boat to escape......"

Liu Fang roared angrily, lifted his leg and kicked the east fence out. He gritted his teeth and said, "Can we escape?" But how did 80,000 soldiers escape? ”

The 100,000 soldiers and horses that Liu Yong handed over to him were drawn from the last line of defense in Suiyang. In order to take Wei County and capture Liu Xiu, Suiyang has torn off the last line of defense.

paid such a big price, but he gave an army of 100,000 to Liyang and fled back to Suiyang alone, what face did he have to see his eldest brother? He would rather die in Liyang than tolerate his escape back to Suiyang.

Liu Fang stared at the East Fence for a long time, he glanced at the surrounding generals again, and said word by word: "In today's battle, we have no way to retreat, we can only fight to the death with the enemy, and if you dare to flee lightly, don't blame the king for turning his face and being ruthless!" ”

As he spoke, he drew his sword from his side, his eyes almost flashing with fire.

Everyone present was frightened, and hurriedly said in unison: "I am willing to follow King Ning and fight to the death with the enemy army to the end!" "It's a pity that the equipment and combat power of the two sides are too different now, and this is no longer something that their personal will can change.