Chapter 82: Forced River Crossing
"The rear army will please."
Seeing that he didn't move, he only left a sentence and got up to leave.
Lu Yi sent him to the trial and left, even if the other party wanted Lu Yi to stabilize the rear army, he couldn't do anything.
The commander of the rear army, who is also a relative of Yuan Shao, Lu Yi can't command at all, and when the camp is in chaos, he can only ensure that he can bring out the camp first and retreat safely.
On the dirt mountain, Lu Bu saw that the boats along the Yellow River had begun to row to the opposite bank, and with the sound of drums coming from afar, he immediately gave an order.
"Sons, get on your horse and charge!"
Riding on the red rabbit, carrying the halberd, Lu Bu clamped the horse's belly.
It's a decisive battle!
"Capture Yuan Shao alive!"
"Capture Yuan Shao alive!"
There were no trees on the dirt hill, it was bare, and there were only a few visible weeds on the ground, and the cavalry charged.
The sound of rumbling horses' hooves was endless, turning into waves and spreading into the distance.
During Yan Liang's march, he suddenly heard the deafening sound of horses' hooves in the distance, his face changed greatly, and he took the lead to stop.
"Immediately stop the rapid march, line up on the spot, and defend."
"Shieldmen, spearmen, crossbowmen!"
The crossbowmen are expensive to build, and the training cost is extremely high, and this time, Yuan Shao only gave Yan Liang five hundred crossbowmen.
If he could borrow the thousand strong crossbows of Lu Yi, Yan Liang was confident that he would win this battle.
The hateful Koji completely ignored him.
Even if Yan Liang took Yuan Shao's order and threatened it.
In fact, the first camp of Lu Yi was all set up out of his own pocket, and what was reported on the surface was funded by Yuan Shao, but in fact it had nothing to do with the Yuan family!
Lu Yi disdained to say this, but Yuan Shao didn't explain, and everyone thought that Yuan Shao was making up for Lu Yi's heavy gift to himself.
After the cavalry of 5,000 people descended the dirt slope, the formation could barely be maintained, but Lu Bu's red rabbit horse had already thrown them far away.
With the time and distance of the charge, the wolf cavalry gradually formed an awl camp, with the front tip and the rear wide, from the density at the beginning, to the spacing of the cavalry later.
From above, it seems to be on a larger scale.
Lu Bu, who was rushing ahead, had already taken the opposing foot formation into his eyes.
In order to resist his cavalry charge, Yuan Shao still put a certain amount of thought into it, but he just looked at the shield in the hands of the foot soldiers from a distance, and it didn't look like Lu Yi's first camp.
That's easy, it's in vain!
He slowed down a little, and after the wolf cavalry in the rear gradually followed, Lu Bu ordered, "Leave them alone, this is located on the plain, and the other party has not yet established a camp, so it can't stop us, so go around directly and go straight to the enemy's base camp." ”
Yuan Shao's reaction was too slow, and he only came out now, wanting to set up a camp to block, but unfortunately it was too late.
The soldiers in the front row of Yan Liang's array, holding shields in their hands, looked at the cavalry opposite, rushed at high speed, and couldn't help swallowing their saliva, their cheeks were sweaty, and the huge sound of horses' hooves beat their hearts frantically.
The original order was to build a camp to resist the enemy, but now he is encountered in the wild, between life and death, and his life hangs by a thread.
"Don't be afraid, fight to the death and don't retreat, as long as you resist their first wave of charge, we can fight back with a backhand!"
Yan Liang shouted and encouraged the soldiers.
It's close, it's about 300 steps away!
Two hundred steps!
Suddenly, the cavalry on the opposite side suddenly changed direction and rushed diagonally to the right of the infantry formation.
Two hundred paces arrived in the blink of an eye, and thousands of cavalry, with a large amount of dust, roared past from the right side of Yan Liang's infantry phalanx.
The sight in the phalanx was instantly obscured by dust.
"Ahem!"
"Ahem!"
The smoke and dust entered the eyes and noses, and the foot soldiers were very uncomfortable.
"It's not good, Lu Bu's target is the Chinese army camp." Only then did Yan Liang react.
He felt that he was invisibly ridiculed by Lu Bu.
The other party looked at the infantry phalanx of 10,000 people like air!
"Quick, turn around, and return to the Chinese army!"
After the dust cleared, the wolf rider had already run for several miles and couldn't catch up, but Yan Liang still gave the order.
The 10,000 men returned the way they came.
The battle on the Yellow River has entered a white-hot stage.
Xu Huang stood at the bow of the ship holding a huge wooden plank to fend off enemy arrows.
Without exception, the arrows that came flat were all blocked by the planks, but the occasional throwing arrows would appear unexpectedly in the rear and hit a soldier.
The ship only has a plank in front to resist the arrows, and the side has to row the boat, and there is no plank to protect it, so the stray arrows that appear in the oblique spurs are often the most fatal.
The dead men who rowed the boat, a few of them had already fallen, and they were lying on the boat and groaning.
These are all people who were hit by arrows and did not die for a while, and the remaining ones who were hit by arrows in their arms and thighs are still rowing.
"Quick, make up for it!"
Xu Huang commanded the soldiers behind him to take over the fallen boatman.
"Hold on a little longer, it's almost to the riverbank."
The closer you get to the riverbank, the greater the impact and penetration of the arrows.
Tuk tuk!
The sound from behind the wooden board was clearly audible, and some arrows had already half penetrated the wooden board, and the arrows appeared in front of Xu Huang's eyes.
Shout!
Another arrow peeked through the diagonal stab and pierced Xu Huang's left arm.
After the arrow enters the flesh, the tail of the arrow is still shaking gently.
"Damn it!"
Xu Huang endured the pain, let the rower work harder, and he saw a row of crossbowmen on the bank of the river through the hole in the wooden plank, getting closer and closer.
......
Lu Bu's cavalry rushed to the outside of Yuan Shao's camp at this time, and was forced to refuse the horse fence, and the speed slowed down.
Draw a halberd in one fell swoop, let's have a round of rapid shooting first!
The spearmen on the opposite side, who were hiding behind the barn, fell to the ground one after another.
Lu Bu stepped forward, drew a halberd and split the horse barn, and after some rude destruction, the wolf riders successfully entered the camp.
Yuan Jun's big tent.
"My lord is on the horse! Wait for the end to fight a bloody way! ”
Wen Chou persuaded Yuan Shao.
"Can't be returned!"
Yuan Shao was in a hurry, once he retreated, the army was unstable, the army was defeated like a mountain, a routed army, facing the enemy cavalry, there was no ability to escape at all.
"Quick, order the foot soldiers to resist Lu Bu's cavalry!"
Yuan Shao instructed Wen Chou.
In the camp, there are many wooden fences, which are not conducive to cavalry combat, and with foot soldiers and crossbowmen, it is easy to restrain Lu Bu's wolf cavalry.
"My lord, the crossbowmen are all on the riverbank sniping the ships of the state!"
Guo Tu reminded Yuan Shao.
The rest took five hundred crossbowmen and were taken by Yan Liang to block Lu Bu.
Unexpectedly, Lu Bu took the lead in dispatching, and without waiting for Yan Liang to form a camp, he took advantage of the high mobility of the cavalry to bypass Yan Liang's infantry phalanx and directly take the Chinese army.
Now Lu Bu is killing all sides at the gate of the camp, and no one can stop him.
"My lord, please withdraw your troops immediately."
Feng Ji continued to persuade, and if he didn't leave, there would be no way out.
"Crossbowmen on the banks of the river, let them retreat together."
Yuan Shao hesitated and gave this order.
"No!"
The trial hurriedly stopped.
The crossbowmen on the riverbank can still resist the opposite Bingzhou army for a while, and if the crossbowmen are withdrawn, the Jizhou army will fall into a situation where they are surrounded on both sides.
Yuan Shao was reluctant to do anything, and he had to cancel this order, the cost of the crossbowman was indeed expensive, but he could use Yuan's family background to build another one.
If you fall into a siege and your life is gone, what is the cost!
Then ditch the crossbowmen!
At that moment, Yuan Tan and Wen Chou took 3,000 cavalry to protect Yuan Shao and the retreat.
"Don't teach Yuan Shao!"
"Capture Yuan Shao alive!"
"The cavalry that is clustered together, there must be Yuan Shao in it, chase!"
Lu Bu immediately led the army and hung behind the three thousand cavalry.