Chapter 456: The Decisive Battle Begins
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Twenty miles south of Yiyang, Liu Xiujun's camp. Liu Xiuye had received Liu Zhi's return, and Xie bowed and expressed his willingness to send troops to annihilate Wang Lang's army, which made Liu Xiu feel a lot more relieved.
It's a pity that even if Liu Xiu can calculate again, he can't predict that Xie Gong's wife Qin Ziwen will suddenly come out to make a difference, and successfully dispel Xie Gong's plan to send troops to help.
There was nothing to say that night, and early the next morning, Liu Xiu gave the order to go down, and the whole army was full of war meals and prepared to fight. In the past few days, Liu Xiujun has been saving money, and the officers and men of the whole army have been reduced to two meals a day.
But even so, the grain and grass in the army are consumed very quickly, after all, this is an army of 120,000 people, and the food required every day is at least a thousand stones, which is not a small amount.
If the logistics supply is sufficient, it doesn't matter, but the problem is that Liu Xiujun's supply line has long been broken.
The officers and men of the whole army know in their hearts that today's battle is a decisive battle that will come ahead of schedule, and as long as they win this battle, they will have no worries about the future, and they can directly take Handan, kill Wang Lang, and end this war.
At this breakfast, the soldiers were both nervous and excited.
After breakfast, the Han army led by Liu Xiu marched out of the camp in batches, and the teams formed a phalanx in front of the camp in batches, lined up the phalanx, advanced forward, and continued to line up the teams behind.
Liu Xiujun went out of the camp to line up, and Wang Langjun, who was stationed on the opposite side, naturally found out at the first time, and the spies immediately reported Liu Xiujun's abnormal movements to Li Yu and Zhang Shen.
After hearing the report, Li Yu and Zhang Shen glanced at each other, looked at each other and smiled bitterly, what should come is still coming after all, Liu Xiujun poured out of the nest, which clearly showed that he was going to start a decisive battle with his own side.
Li Yu took a deep breath and said: "In this battle, our army has no way to avoid it, and we can only fight to the death!" ”
Zhang Shen stood up and said word by word: "Da Sima, give an order!" ”
Li Yu glanced at Zhang Shen, calmed his mind, and shouted loudly: "Pass the order, the whole army will fight!" ”
With Li Yu's order, Wang Langjun's camp was like a frying pan. As far as the eye could see, there was a crowd of people, and groups of soldiers ran to the open space to line up, and then they were led by their respective generals and quickly ran out of the camp.
The square formations were neatly arranged in front of the camp of Wang Lang's army. Li Yu and Zhang Shen did not gather together an army of 200,000, but Li Yu led 100,000 and Zhang Shen led 100,000, divided into two large phalanxes on the left and right.
When advancing forward, the two phalanxes marched in unison, intending to form a trap on Liu Xiujun.
Liu Xiu, who was sitting in the Chinese army, squinted his eyes, pondered for a moment, and said: "The enemy army is divided into two armies, the left and right, and wants to flank our army on the left and right. Deng Yu listens to orders! ”
"The last general!" Deng Yu urged the horse to come out of the queue and intervened in Liu Xiu to give a salute. Liu Xiu said: "You lead 50,000 soldiers, supplemented by Ma Wu, Feng Yi, Fu Jun, Wang Ba, Sai Zun, Zang Gong and other generals, to meet the left of the enemy army!" ”
"The last general obeys!"
"Wu Han listens to orders!"
"The last general!"
"You lead 50,000 soldiers, supplemented by Geng Yi, Kou Xun, Wang Liang, Liu Zhi, Geng Chun and other generals, to meet the right side of the enemy's army."
"The last general obeys!"
Liu Xiu continued: "The rest of the generals, with me with 20,000 soldiers, sit in the Chinese army, waiting for the opportunity to move!" ”
"The last general obeys!"
According to the camp posed by Li Yu and Zhang Shen, Liu Xiu quickly adjusted his own formation. The 120,000-strong army quickly split from a large phalanx into three phalanxes of two large and one small.
The two fast large phalanxes led by Deng Yu and Wu Han moved to the left and right, each facing Li Yujun and Zhang Shenjun, while the small phalanx led by Liu Xiu himself walked in the center of the two large phalanxes.
Wang Langjun, who advanced from the opposite side, of course, also saw the changes in Liu Xiujun.
At this time, Li Yu and Zhang Shen had a good heart, and each sent the cavalry under their command to take the lead in breaking through to the 20,000-strong phalanx where Liu Xiu was located, testing the reality.
Don't look at the small number of troops in this small phalanx, only about 20,000 people, but it is in the center of the two large phalanxes, no matter which side of the war is tight, it can make reinforcements as soon as possible.
It can be said that Liu Xiu's formation, the small phalanx in the center is the core.
Li Yu and Zhang Shen both saw this, so they invariably sent cavalry, wanting to use the speed of the cavalry to defeat this small phalanx by surprise.
The two cavalry suddenly rushed out of the two phalanxes of Wang Langjun's army, and the war horses galloped, like two off-string arrows, heading straight for Liu Xiu's phalanx.
Seeing that the enemy sent cavalry to attack the main formation, Jia Fu quickly came to Liu Xiu's approach, intervened in the salute, and said, "Lord, the last general will go to meet the enemy!" ”
"Are you sure?"
Jia Fuzheng said: "The last general will lead five hundred to run for his life, which is enough to defeat the enemy!" ”
Liu Xiu nodded and advised, "Jun Ran be more careful!" ”
Since the last time he had a cooperation with the Benming Army, Jia Fu has been very fond of the Benming Army, and after the war, he asked Liu Xiu for his life, hoping that he could serve as the chief general of the Benming Army.
Liu Xiu did not hesitate much, and approved Jia Fu's application on the spot, and handed over all the Ben Ming Lang under his command to Jia Fu's command.
After this period of getting along, Jia Fu has established a very high prestige among Ben Minglang, and all Ben Minglang is convinced by Jia Fu and is willing to obey his leadership and command.
Jia Fu dismounted, carried the painting pole Fang Tianhalberd, and walked out of his own camp with hundreds of people, standing in a long row in front of the camp.
Seeing hundreds of people suddenly running out of the enemy phalanx, the cavalry who were charging towards Liu Xiu's phalanx were startled at first.
But if you look closely, these Liu Xiujun soldiers, with neither bows nor crossbows or shields in their hands, are standing so straight and straight in front of the phalanx, all like wooden stakes.
Seeing this, all the cavalry sneered in their hearts, are these people crazy? Thinking that relying on his own flesh and blood to form a human wall, he can resist the impact of his own cavalry? It's just out to die!
The two cavalry gradually merged into a large cavalry team, and the people crouched on their horses one by one, trying to reduce the area where they were attacked.
Boom Boom –
There were 2,000 cavalry charging in formation, and the momentum should not be underestimated, and as the cavalry got closer and closer, people could clearly feel the tremor of the ground under their feet getting stronger and stronger.
Jia Fu, who was standing at the front, faced the oncoming cavalry under the pressure of black, his face was not afraid, but both eyes were shining.
When one of the cavalrymen running at the front was about to approach him, Jia Fu suddenly broke off and shouted: "Kill-"
While shouting, he lifted the painting rod Fang Tianhalberd that was poked on the ground, held the halberd in both hands, and stabbed it forward. This halberd is in the chest of the war horse. There was a flutter in the ear chakra, and most of the halberd tips did not enter the chest of the war horse.
The strength of the war horse when it charges, how much more than a hundred catties? But what I'm afraid of is that Jia Fu used the painting rod Fang Tianhalberd to resist the inertia of the war horse, stepped on the ground with both feet, and did not take a step back.
The cavalryman on horseback, due to inertia, let out a strange scream, and flew straight forward from his horse.
As Jia Fu and one of the cavalrymen took the lead in handing each other, the rest of the cavalry also followed one after another, rushing to the front.
Ben Minglang, who was originally standing upright in front of his own camp like a wooden stake, squatted down together the moment the war horse rushed to his front.
As they squatted, they pulled out the long sword they were carrying behind their backs.
The long swords they use are all specially made, the blades are straight, thin and long, emitting a faint blue light, just looking at it, it makes people feel that it is extremely sharp. This sword is famous, the sword of the horse.
The horse chopping sword is the predecessor of the horse chopping sword. In the long-term campaign with the Xiongnu in the north, the Han people developed an artifact that specifically restrained the cavalry, which was this kind of horse sword.
At that time, the sword was so exquisitely cast that even in modern times, with a distance of nearly two thousand years, the sword excavated from the Han tomb did not have rust.
Don't look at the slenderness of the sword, but the sharpness of the sword, cutting off the horse's leg is like cutting vegetables.
A long row of Ben Ming Lang, all squatted down, and took out the sword, and then squatted on the ground to swing the knife, for a while, I heard the crisp sound of clicking.
The horses whose legs had been cut off screamed and threw themselves forward, and the cavalrymen on horseback screamed and flew forward.
As far as the eye could see, a long row of 'flying men' suddenly appeared in front of the two armies. These flying men fell to the ground, rattled, and then rolled forward against the ground, just in front of the feet of the soldiers in the front row of the phalanx.
People don't need to fight, just lift their spears and stab them downward, and an enemy cavalryman can be killed.
Facing Wang Lang's cavalry, the Ben Ming army did not stand up straight at all, either with a cat on the waist, or squatting on the ground, constantly swimming, constantly swinging the horse chopping sword in his hand, and cutting the galloping war horses to the ground.
It's easy to say, and it's really easy to see the Running Army doing, but in fact, it's far from being as simple as it seems to be.
In the case of cavalry charging into battle, how to avoid the attack of the cavalry, how to dodge the trampling of the war horse, how to cut off the horse's leg without being hit by the inertia of the war horse, this requires repeated actual combat training.
The reason why the Benming Army is brave and good at fighting, and the reason why Benming Lang can make the Huns frightened and pick out one at random, is that they have all been tempered and crawled out of the pile of dead.
Youzhou Assault Cavalry, referred to as Youzhou Assault Cavalry, is famous all over the world, but Youzhou Rush, which is much more terrifying than Youzhou Assault Cavalry. The people of Jizhou may not understand this, and the most profound understanding of this is the Huns.
Li Yu and Zhang Shen, who were in the camp, to be honest, they didn't see too clearly how Liu Xiujun fought with their own cavalry, it was just a blink of an eye, and the 2,000 cavalry sent out by their own side were all gone.
Looking at the front of Liu Xiujun's camp again, the corpses of the war horses are stacked with the corpses of people, and the corpses of people are mixed with the corpses of war horses, stacked on top of each other, layer upon layer.
This situation not only made Li Yu and Zhang Shen dumbfounded, but also the 200,000 Wang Langjun under the command of the two were also dumbfounded.
That's 2,000 cavalry! 2,000 cavalry, against about 20,000 infantry, is indeed not easy to fight, but it will not be wiped out so quickly!
Jia Fu led the Benming Army to fight against Wang Lang's cavalry and won a complete victory, which made a huge gap in the psychology of the two sides that had not yet been fully engaged.
On Liu Xiujun's side, the morale was greatly boosted, the soldiers were excited, their blood was boiling, and their whole bodies seemed to be burning. As the people continued to push forward, they shouted in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill! On the other hand, looking at the overwhelming Wang Langjun, the morale was suppressed all of a sudden, and when the soldiers advanced further, they did not look at the enemy army coming from the front, but looked at Liu Xiu's phalanx in horror, for fear that this small phalanx would suddenly kill their side.