Chapter 706: The Battle of Blocking the Township

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Liu Xiu stayed in Chungling for a night, and stayed in the old house of Liu Liang's family, and the next morning, Liu Xiu said goodbye to the villagers who came to see him off, took Fu Di and others, left Chungling, and returned to the township.

When Deng Feng ordered the surrounding counties of Caiyang to gather soldiers and horses and work together to arrest Liu Xiu in Chungling, Liu Xiu had already led people to leave Chungling for several days, and everyone was about to return to Blockage.

Without saying anything all the way, Liu Xiu successfully returned to the Han army camp in the north of the township. On the third day after Liu Xiu returned to the camp, the Han army sounded the horn of attack.

The 300,000 Han troops, whose morale was like a rainbow, went straight to the camp of Deng Fengjun, which was south of the township.

Deng Feng behaved extremely toughly, and had no intention of avoiding the battle for the menacing 300,000 Han army, and led an army of 150,000 people under his command to open a large camp and open a formation outside the camp, wanting to fight to the death with the Han army.

His own strength was twice that of Deng Fengjun, but instead of defending the camp, Deng Fengjun dared to go out of the camp to meet the battle, Deng Feng's courage was really admirable.

Liu Xiu, who was sitting in the Chinese army, raised his eyes to look at Deng Fengjun opposite. Deng Fengjun's military appearance was not uniform, and the soldiers were dressed in a messy manner.

In particular, the Hanzhong exile army headed by Yan Cen and the township blocking army headed by Dong Xun did not have a unified military uniform at all, and the officers and men of the two armies wore everything.

However, the weapons are quite complete, the soldiers are holding shields in one hand and spears in the other, and the queues are quite neat.

Liu Xiu watched for a moment, and said to the left and right: "Ziyan leads the left front army, Jun Ran leads the right front army, and hits the enemy's front army!" ”

Wu Han and Cen Peng intervened and responded: "Weichen obeys!" ”

Liu Xiu said: "Zhong Hua led the right army and attacked the left of the enemy's army!" Gongsun led the left army and hit the right of the enemy! ”

Deng Yu and Feng Yi intervened to receive the order: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Liu Xiu continued: "Bo Zhao led the cavalry of our army, waiting for the opportunity to move, whichever side of the enemy army is strong, which side will reinforce which!" ”

Geng Yi intervened and responded: "Weichen obeys!" ”

At this time, the formation put forward by Liu Xiu was randomly placed according to the situation on the battlefield, and there was no specific formation name.

Because of the large number of his own troops, Liu Xiu divided the front army into two parts, Wu Han and Cen Peng each led one part, and the left and right wings of his own side, each one part, were commanded by Deng Yu and Feng Yi.

In addition, he arranged for Geng Yi to command his own cavalry, which was a separate part as a mobile force on the battlefield. Looking at the overall situation of Liu Xiu's formation, the Han army was like an open mouth, wanting to swallow Deng Fengjun on the opposite side.

The strength of the left and right front armies totaled 150,000 people, the strength of the left and right flanks was 100,000, and the cavalry commanded by Geng Yi was 30,000, while Liu Xiu's Chinese army here was only 20,000 soldiers.

Liu Xiu put all his own combatable soldiers into the front, that is, to take down Deng Fengjun in one go on the frontal battlefield.

On the Han side, they took the lead in beating drums and marching.

The officers and men of the former army, led by Wu Han and Cen Peng, marched forward with a uniform pace.

There is no need to fight, just listening to the deafening sound of the march and feeling the tremor of the ground is enough to make people feel frightened. Looking at the oncoming Han army, Yan Cen and Dong Xun's hearts both rose to their throats, and the two of them involuntarily looked at Deng Feng and said: "General Deng, the enemy army is menacing, and there are many generals, in this battle, our army is afraid that it will be difficult to fight the enemy head-on."

Balance! ”

Deng Feng narrowed his eyes and said in a shocking voice: "In this battle, our army has no way to avoid it, and if it can't be fought, it must be fought!" As long as you can withstand the enemy army for a while, when our reinforcements arrive, you will be able to break the enemy army and capture Liu Xiu alive! ”

Reinforcements? Where are the reinforcements?

When Yan Cen and Dong Xun heard this, they were quite inexplicable, their own army was here, where were there any reinforcements? After thinking about it, the two of them suddenly moved in their hearts, could it be that Qin Feng, that coward, would send troops to help?

If this is the case, then in this battle, you really have a fight! Although Qin Feng is as timid as a mouse, the soldiers under Qin Feng's command are still good, and the veterans of Nanjun are quite good at fighting and have a large number of troops.

As long as Qin Feng's army can arrive in time when the fierce battle between his own side and the enemy army is in full swing, he will definitely be able to kill the enemy army by surprise.

Both of them thought that the reinforcements Deng Feng was talking about were Qin Fengjun, and then, neither of them asked much, and raised their eyes to look at the battlefield ahead.

On Deng Fengjun's side, the soldiers under Deng Feng's command were the main force, located in the center, Yancen's army was on the left, and Dong Xun's army was on the right. The soldiers of the two sides advanced retrograde, and launched a large-scale head-to-head duel in the plain area outside the township.

In this battle, the Han army invested 300,000 troops, the Deng Feng coalition army invested 150,000 troops, and the total army of 450,000 people on both sides fought and slaughtered, which was unprecedented in the history of Nanyang.

When the soldiers of both sides advanced within the range of the archers, the camps of the two armies shot arrows almost at the same time, buzzing and buzzing, and long dark clouds rose up from both sides, whistling and smashing towards the opposite camp.

Click, click, click! The soldiers raised the wooden shields in their hands one after another, forming a huge shield array. Do, do! After the arrow array smashed down, the sound of arrows nailing to the shield array was endless.

After a round of arrows, the soldiers lowered their wooden shields, pulled out the arrows nailed to them, and threw them on the ground beside them.

In the midst of the crowd, short, thin soldiers walked back and forth, quickly picking up arrows from the ground, tying them into bundles with ropes for every fifty they had gathered, and carrying them to the rear to be handed over to their archers for further use.

The soldiers on both sides, against the opposite round after round of arrow formations, continued to move forward, and soon, the soldiers in the front row came into contact with each other, and the sound of the collision of shields and shields instantly resounded into a piece, and the rumbling was endless.

The soldiers in front of them, with their strength, put their shields forward, and the soldiers in the back, armed with halberds and spears, stabbed at the enemy on the opposite side.

The shield soldiers, halberd soldiers, and spearmen in the front row, from time to time, someone was hit, screaming and falling into a pool of blood.

Hundreds of thousands of people go head-to-head, and it is impossible to decide the winner in a moment.

At the beginning of the battle, the soldiers on both sides were full of vigor and rushed to the opposite side with all their might, and the battle was also extremely tragic.

When both sides have exhausted their sharpness, the next battle will enter a stalemate stage.

At this time, the battlefield was already full of corpses and rivers of blood. The soldiers in front of them were exhausted, but they couldn't retreat from the battlefield, so they could only grit their teeth and hold on to it.

The battle between the two sides lasted from morning to noon, and from noon to the afternoon. After fighting for so long, both the Han army and the Deng Feng army suffered extremely heavy casualties.

Relatively speaking, the Han army had a large number of troops and could afford such high casualties, but the Deng Fengjun, which had fewer troops, began to show signs of inadequacy.

Yan Cen and Dong Xun were so anxious that their foreheads were sweating, and the two looked around from time to time, hoping to see the reinforcements, but every time they looked, they were disappointed, the surroundings were empty, and they couldn't see the shadow of the reinforcements at all.

Dong Xun took the lead and couldn't hold his breath, urged the horse to come to Deng Feng's approach, and asked, "General Deng, where are our reinforcements?" If reinforcements don't come again, our soldiers will be wiped out! ”

At this time, Deng Feng's face was also extremely solemn, he waved his hand slightly to Dong Xun and Yan Cen, and said: "General Dong, General Yan, don't be impatient, I infer that our reinforcements are coming!" ”

Yan Cen and Dong Xun looked at Deng Feng with strange expressions, and now they both doubted whether they had any reinforcements that Deng Feng had mentioned.

Without waiting for the two of them to ask questions again, suddenly, they saw an army rushing out of the township, and this army of soldiers and horses went straight to the Chinese army of the Han army.

Seeing this, Yan Cen and Dong Xun were stunned, and the two of them looked at the soldiers and horses killed from the township in amazement, and they couldn't react for a while.

During this time, Deng Feng has been recruiting soldiers and horses from various counties in Nanyang, and the county soldiers from various counties in Nanyang have also been continuously sent to the side of the township.

However, Deng Feng transferred so many county soldiers, but the strength of Deng Feng's army has not increased significantly, so where are all the county soldiers who came to help?

The county soldiers who came to help had been incorporated into Deng Feng's army, and at the same time, Deng Feng transferred 20,000 elites under his command and quietly arranged them in the township.

He buried 20,000 elite soldiers in the township, so that when the soldiers on both sides fought the main battlefield, the 20,000 elite soldiers could take the opportunity to sneak attack the Chinese army of the Han army.

Surprise and attack unprepared, no matter whether Liu Xiu can be taken or not, it is enough to stir up the enemy's Chinese army into chaos, as long as the Chinese army is in chaos, the front army will be in chaos, so that the opportunity for their own side to turn defeat into victory appears.

This was the tactic used by Deng Feng.

Deng Feng's move is really quite unexpected, at least among the generals of the Han army, no one could have expected Deng Feng to hide 20,000 elites in the township.

The 20,000 soldiers of Deng Fengjun, after rushing out of the blockade township, went straight to the Chinese army of the Han army.

Liu Xiu, who was sitting in the Chinese army, was stunned, he turned his head to look at the 20,000 Deng Fengjun who were swarming over, frowned slightly, and said indifferently: "Deng Feng is still a little clever. He knew that a head-to-head confrontation could not be his opponent, so he hid 20,000 ambush soldiers in the township, intending to sneak attack his own Chinese army. The soldiers of the Han army around Liu Xiu had solemn faces, and they all said nervously: "Your Majesty, the enemy army is actually blocking

The township is ambushed, and we ...... Let's get back first! ”

Liu Xiu glanced at everyone and said in a deep voice: "The two armies are fighting fiercely, how can they retreat if they want to?" As he spoke, he turned his head sideways and said, "Long Yuan! ”

"The subordinates are here!" Long Yuan intervened to give a salute.

"You go and inform the officers and men of the front army, the enemy is coming from the rear, and I will deal with it, so that they don't have to worry, worry about the rear, concentrate on the front, and defeat the enemy army in front!" Liu Xiu said categorically.

Long Yuan hurriedly replied and turned his horse away.

After Long Yuan left, Liu Xiu shouted: "All my Han army soldiers, follow me to break the enemy!" As he spoke, he clamped his legs between the belly of the war horse, and the war horse was in pain, and his two front hooves were raised high, almost standing upright on the ground.

The war horse neighed a few times, and after the front hooves hit the ground, they opened their four hooves and ran straight towards the swarming enemy troops on the opposite side.

As soon as Liu Xiu moved, the surrounding soldiers also moved, and people slapped their war horses one by one, followed Liu Xiu, and killed the enemy.

The first to rush in front of Liu Xiu was a military general of Deng Fengjun, holding a glaive long knife, aimed at Liu Xiu's head, and swept over with a knife.

Liu Xiu bowed his head forward, hey, the blade swept over his head, and when the two horses were staggered, the enemy general still wanted to raise his knife and slash again, Liu Xiu's Chixiao sword came out of the sheath, swung horizontally, and slashed at the opponent's neck.

The general hurriedly put away his sword to block, but he knew that Liu Xiu's swing of the sword was just a false move, and after the other party made a blocking gesture, he suddenly changed his move and turned into a stab.

There was a pop in the ear chakra, and the Chixiao Sword pierced from the right side of the enemy's neck, revealing it on the left side of his neck, and with a sword down, he pierced out two blood holes on the left and right of the opponent's neck. The enemy general didn't say a word, and fell off his horse on his back. Liu Xiu did not pause for a moment, and continued to urge the horse to charge forward, holding a sword to meet the rest of the enemy army.