Chapter Eighty-Six: Ambush

Sure enough, when Lu Bu's army passed through Niuyin Mountain and came out of Baicheng Valley, there was indeed a group of Yellow Turban troops waiting in front of them, and the number was indeed only 3,000 people.

At the same time, the more than 2,000 people who had been following behind Lü Bu's army also sped up and appeared in the valley, cutting off the rear route of the Bingzhou army.

Although Zhang Liao had been reminding Lu Bu before, he was not afraid, the members of the Swinging Kou Cavalry could each be ten with one, not to mention that these bandits and grass Kou were not even as good as one?

Lu Bu came to the side of the carriage, "Don't be afraid, these thieves, Wen Yuan will be sent away in a while." ”

Zhang Zhongjing has also seen a big battle, so he naturally doesn't take these grass robbers in his eyes, he knows the strength of the swing coars, so he lifted the curtain of the car, intending to watch the battle.

For the safety of the divine doctor, Lu Bu asked him to put on a pair of armor to prevent stray arrows, and sent someone to take a shield to protect him closely, which was reassuring.

Lu Bu looked at the enemy in front of him, then at the enemy behind him, estimated the time, and said to Zhang Liao: "Wenyuan, the enemy in front will be handed over to you, the guard battalion is for you, and I have enough reconnaissance battalion here." ”

Zhang Liao nodded and received the order, he was very relieved of Lu Bu, ordered the guard battalion, and slowly stepped forward, he didn't notice that the number of people in the reconnaissance battalion was much less.

The three companies of the guard battalion had 500 people, all of whom were all-round cavalry and infantry players.

Zhang Liao nodded and began to jog, slowly accelerating. The cavalry of the guard battalion is between the heavy cavalry and the light cavalry, so it is also necessary to cherish the horsepower and not to launch a charge from too far away.

The Yellow Turban Army in Taniguchi is actually a bandit in this vicinity, nominally belonging to the Black Mountain Army, under the banner of the Yellow Turban Army, in essence, they are still just some grass bandits, a rabble.

I just heard that there were nearly a thousand Han troops, each with three horses, escorting a carriage, passing through the mountains, so I became greedy.

One is that there must be valuables in the carriage, and secondly, three thousand horses are also a great fortune. So they gathered five or six thousand people in a few cottages, and so many people couldn't take these thousand cavalry?

Lu Bu was in a hurry this time, and he didn't play the banner of the state army, especially Lu Bu's own banner, and as a result, he once again attracted bandits.

It's really fate with the bandits, last time I attracted Dian Wei and Guan Hu's robbery, and this time it worked again. When Lu Bu watched Zhang Liao charge the bandits in front of him, these thoughts came to his mind, and he wanted to laugh.

Where did the bandits fight in earnest, but relying on the courage of blood and the advantage of being outnumbered, they simply put spearmen and pikemen in the front row to resist the charge of cavalry.

However, there were only a few spears, all earthen spears and sharpened wooden sticks, and when it came to facing the charge launched by the five hundred cavalry, it was a little bit of a thigh. There were also few archers in their ranks.

Zhang Liao controlled the rhythm of the attack very well, and when he advanced to eighty zhang at a medium speed, he "changed the crossbow and fired freely." ”

Five hundred crossbows viciously shot five thousand glowing crossbow arrows at the Yellow Turbans in front. The bandits, who had few shields and few armor protections, were baptized with crossbows in their flesh and blood, and fell to the ground in pieces.

Seeing that it was about to collapse, it was still a few leaders who desperately drove away the threat, so they barely stayed where they were.

But Zhang Liao will not show mercy to his opponent because he is weak, "change the gun." "He just commanded in strict accordance with the procedures for the engagement of the state army.

"Throw the gun, put it!" Five hundred swinging cavalrymen stretched their bodies, then stepped on the stirrups, their bodies moved forward, and five hundred throwing spears fell from the sky.

This time the impact on the bandits was far greater than the damage caused by the crossbow arrows, and the sharp and heavy spears used the impact of the horses to penetrate the human body, even nailing them to the ground or wearing them in a string.

Several leaders tried to stop their subordinates from escaping, but they were killed by an arrow, one person and one arrow, and every shot, but it was Zhang Liao who performed his archery skills. Without the leader's obstruction, the bandits in front no longer wanted to stay where they were and let others slaughter them, and they scattered one after another.

While Zhang Liao led his men to attack forward, the bandits in the rear also had the courage to attack the carriage, of course, there was no formation either.

In fact, there was only one reconnaissance company left guarding the carriage, and they did not dismount, but simply staggered and lined up, stood in two rows, and took up their crossbows, while the twenty sharpshooters took up their longbows.

When the bandits were still one hundred and twenty feet away, the marksmen began a magnificent archery show, and as long as the bandit rushed to the front, he would definitely attract a feathered arrow, either through the throat or in the chest, without exception.

The bandits didn't dare to rush too hard, and when the bird came out, a funny scene appeared, looking at each other's positions, charging side by side, and no one dared to rush to the front.

But the marksmen of the Swinger Rider will not wait for them, and if they don't come out, they will pick the shot that looks like the leader. It was like a test of courage, but unfortunately the bandits failed and preferred to slow down their charge rather than die.

When it finally reached eighty zhang, even the crossbow joined the ranks of shooting, and the bandits relied on the large number of people and each other's courage, and there were only more than 100 Han troops on the opposite side.

At this moment, horns sounded on the cliffs on both sides, and then arrows rained down, and the bandits in the valley were completely stunned by the arrows that fell from overhead.

They couldn't figure it out, it was obviously they who ambushed the Han army, but how it became the Han army ambushing themselves.

But they didn't need to figure it out, there might not be many arrows shot from the mountain, but they were ruthless and accurate, and the arrows of the people in front of them were the same, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of people fell.

They are just thieves, they will only bully more people and fewer people, and bully the soft and fear the hard. These Han troops are too powerful, and they still rob a fart, anyway, their leaders are dead, run quickly, if you run slowly, your life will be gone.

If one person escapes, ten people will follow, and if ten people flee, many more will follow, and finally the two thousand or so bandits will leave behind six or seven hundred corpses of their companions and wounded soldiers, and they all turn around and flee.

Hao Zhao did not chase after Lu Bu according to Lu Bu's instructions, and waited for these bandits to flee far away, and then climbed down from the cliffs on both sides with ropes.

It turned out that after listening to the scout's report, Lu Bu said that there was no ambush on both sides, so he thought of this method, these cliffs are pediatric for specially trained scouts, not to mention that there are special tools to cooperate.

So he asked Hao Zhao to lead two companies to ambush on the cliffs on both sides, so that the enemy was caught off guard, and he couldn't figure out the reality of the Han army, so he could scare the other party away.

After all, this time interspersed, the number of troops he brought was limited, and he could not afford casualties, so he could operate with the least losses.

Zhang Liao also quickly dispersed the bandits who stood in the way, and their results were greater, eliminating more than a thousand bandits, leaving behind three or four hundred wounded soldiers.

However, these wounded soldiers can't be managed, so they should wait for their companions to rescue them or fend for themselves. Lu Bu instructed to clean up the battlefield and recover the throwing guns and crossbow arrows as much as possible. The state army defeated the bandits with only long-range attacks, so there were no casualties.