Chapter 244: The Battle of Shao Ping (16)

Baili Yan (Wei Xian) pulled people to the north of the city to join Xu Jin, and Sikong Nan led two hundred cavalry of the Leopard Tao Battalion to kill 31 people, including the puppet Taishou Wang Quan, Cheng Ye and one of his holy envoys, who carried Wang Quan's head all the way to the inner house of the Taishou Zhizhi and kicked open the door of Miss Liao's room.

"Miss Liao, the head of the sword Wang Quan dog thief, please take a look!"

Miss Liao was shocked, looked at the bloody human head in a daze, vaguely felt familiar, and looked carefully at it, it was the head of the beast Wang Quan:

"Huh...... Hehaha...... Father, brother, husband, you have all seen that the dog thief is dead! ”

Miss Liao looked up to the sky and cried with joy, relieving the hatred in her chest. The next moment, his intuition flickered, and when he saw that he was falling, Sikong Nan threw down his head and held it in his arms:

"Miss, Miss!"

Miss Liao held her forehead and lay weakly in Sikong Nan's arms, and murmured:

"The concubine's revenge will be avenged, there are no regrets in this life, I am willing to serve the general left and right in this life, and I hope the general will have mercy."

"Miss, this is a serious word, Nangong will treat Miss as a beloved, and she will live up to it in this life!"

Sikong Nan only felt warm in his heart at this moment, tears in his eyes, bitterness and sadness faintly swam into his heart.

Immersed in a moment of love, Sikong Nan took Miss Liao and rode to the station to meet Bai He, Fang Qian, Lu Zhao and others. At the same time, nearly 10,000 people from Bailiyan and Xu Jin left the city one after another, and the vanguard cavalry of the Black Turban Army stayed at the boundary of two miles outside the north of the city, and was mobilizing men and horses to move to the east and west, trying to surround Shao Ping on all sides.

"General Xu Jin, you and I will attack to the west, after your unit assaults to the west side of the Black Turban Army, we will fight on the spot, and our department will attack from west to north to east in a roundabout way to disrupt the enemy position. The general understands! ”

"Xu understands!"

"Alright, let's go!"

Bailiyan spear in hand, kicked the stirrup, and the healthy horse under the crotch neighed, like a fast arrow off the string.

The Xiao Cavalry Battalion, the Leopard Tao Battalion, and the Longwu Battalion each set up a wedge-shaped formation, led by the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and the finished glyph-shaped sharp arrow wedge-shaped attack formation rushed towards the west side of the Black Turban Army cavalry.

Xu Jin led 5,000 cavalry to line up, and when the forward battalion rushed out of the one-mile boundary, Xu Jin's men and horses launched an offensive, and the two roads chased behind the vanguard battalion on the left and right, forming a pincer offensive.

When the Baili Yan army received the enemy, the pincer offensive of the two battalions of Bao Tao and Long Wu was launched left and right, and the men and horses of the headquarters of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion were as fast as arrows, piercing into the enemy formation like steel cones, and the enemy cavalry on the left and right flanks was quickly disrupted by the two battalions of Bao Tao and Long Wu, and continued to attack to the west.

Where has the Black Turban Army seen such a tactic, tens of thousands of cavalry swarmed up to intercept the offensive of the pioneer battalion, but the pioneer battalion did not entangle at all, and rushed all the way to the west in a wedge-shaped formation, stabbing and slashing with sharp swords and spears to disrupt the Black Turban formation, not stopping at all, but continuing to move westward, breaking through the entire defense line on the west side of the Black Turban Army.

By the time he reacted, Xu Jin's pincer offensive on the left and right flanks had already begun, and the gap that had torn open the vanguard battalion again continued to expand, giving it no time to breathe.

Ye Xin and the generals looked at the city head and fought, only to see the vanguard battalion put on a strange formation, and actually pierced the enemy formation at the first time, Xu Jin followed closely behind to launch an inverted figure-eight formation impact, quickly widening the gap, and cutting the north and south of the black turban army's western defense line into two sections.

Without waiting for Ye Xin to see the situation, the main force of the Bailiyan Pioneer Battalion had already passed through the enemy formation, with the help of the strong speed of the horses, quickly broke away from the battlefield, regathered the troops and horses on the west side, and once again attacked the cavalry on the south flank of the black turban on the west side that had been cut off by Xu Jin's department, and made a huge arc along the way, and once again pierced into the enemy cavalry formation that had been divided in the south to fight and fight.

The Baili Yan army was tactically flexible and powerful, sometimes gathering and sometimes scattering, causing great trouble to the traditional Central Plains cavalry.

The cavalry of the Black Turban Army still maintained the tactical strategy of the traditional line group impact and swarming the enemy, and there was no way to deal with the nomadic attack and harassment mobile tactics.

The vanguard battalions all take the commander as the smallest tactical unit, and when each battalion gathers, it launches a cluster formation charge, and when it disperses, the commander is the center to carry out tactical coordination.

The enemy can't beat and run, the crowd uses the advantage of horse mobility to disengage, the enemy is outnumbered, gather a few long troops to gather and annihilate, and there are scattered crossbows and dark arrows, which makes the black turban army that inherited the traditional cavalry tactics of the Central Plains exhausted and difficult to cope, and can only watch the men and horses being eaten away step by step.

"Generals, the traitor killed by General Wei in a moment lost his armor, this kind of tactics is the precedent of cavalry warfare, and the mystery is endless, you should apply what you have learned, and you must not slack off!"

Ye Xin Zhengse said, and the generals said in unison:

"Nuo, obey the orders of Ye Dadu Governor!"

"Passed on our military order, after the assembly of all armies, withdraw from the south gate and the west gate. Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu went out of the city from the south of the city, blocking the enemy's cavalry to the east, and cutting off our army from the battlefield to the west. ”

"No!"

Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu were ordered to go to the south of the city immediately.

At this time, the killing outside the city was in full swing, Xu Jin blocked the cavalry of the Black Turban Army for a short time, Bailiyan rushed all the way to the south, killing and defeating the enemy who was detouring, and then quickly detoured to the west to the north, sticking to the outer line of the cavalry of the Black Turban Army, maintaining a semi-contact posture and harassing the cavalry, and attacking the cavalry of the Black Turban Army with a crossbow from time to time.

The cavalry of the Black Turban Army is a cavalry, the vast majority of them are infantry and horses, and a considerable number of archers are riding horses with bows on their backs.

At this time, the Xian soldiers and horses in Shaoping City withdrew from the west and south gates, and the cavalry of the Black Turban Army outside the south gate had been killed, but the number was not much. I think that the Black Turban Army did not expect the Xian Army to abandon the city, and the Black Turban Army that came to besiege the city was all horses that the infantry army had changed, and they were killed by Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu's two generals 8,000 elite iron cavalry and fled, and they were defeated.

At the same time, Ye Xin was leading the cavalry of his headquarters to carry a large number of horses, donkeys, and baggage from the south of the city. If it weren't for Bailiyan dragging the main force of the Black Turban Army outside the north of the city and not being able to go south to encircle Shaoping, the Xian Army would have at least 50,000 donkeys and horses to be left in Shaoping and not taken away, and in the end they became the trophies and rations of the Black Turban Army.

The fierce battle lasted for more than an hour, the Black Turban Army noticed that the Xian Army abandoned Shaoping, continued to add troops, and increased the detour efforts on the east and west sides, trying to seal the exit of the Xian Army on the west and south roads, but was blocked by Xu Jinjun on the West Road, Gu Zhong and Xiaoqu on the South Road, and under the continuous attack of the Baili Yan Army, the Black Turban Army's roundabout siege strategy was defeated several times.

At two o'clock, the south and north gates of Shaoping were still firmly under the control of the Xian army, and all the men and horses of Ye Xin's headquarters withdrew, leaving only 150,000 or 60,000 hungry people in the city, and 20,000 black scarf people who had followed before.

Sikong Nan, Bai He, Fang Qian, and Lu Zhao were the last to evacuate, and when they left, they opened the grain depot and released the news that the people would take grain, which can be described as extremely lacking in morality. When he was over, he did not forget to throw the "Letter to the World and All the People" everywhere in the city, strengthen the counter-propaganda efforts, and disturb the hearts of the black turban traitors.

At three o'clock, the Xian army withdrew, and Ye Xin ordered Gu Zhong and Xiao Qu to fight and retreat, and at the same time sent a group of men and horses to meet Xu Jin.

At this time, the Bailiyan pioneer battalion once again detoured counterclockwise from east to north, and the murderous spirit was in full swing, killing and plundering all the way without encountering any resistance, seeing that the black turban army in the north suddenly rushed towards it, Bailiyan thought to herself, it must be Xu Jin's western front that had a problem.

According to this calculation, it is impossible to collapse the front, it is likely that Ye Xin's main force has all withdrawn, and Xu Jin has to order the rear to retreat westward, resulting in the collapse of the western front, and he is fighting on the eastern front, and the Black Turban Army intends to separate him from the army, so he quickly organized men and horses to pounce on him.

Seeing this situation, Bailiyan quickly turned his horse, did not give the Black Turban Army a chance to encircle, and quickly broke through to the east, not entangled, but led its main force to the east, so as to gain more time and initiative for Ye Xin's troops to break away from the battle line.

The vanguard battalion turned sharply to the east, with the Black Turban Army following closely behind. The two armies fought fiercely for more than an hour, and the horses on both sides were exhausted.

The horses of the Xian army were released outside the city yesterday, eating the rice seedlings in the field, and feeding them fat and healthy, even though the horsepower consumption was great, the endurance was far more than the morning belatedly, and the black turban army that was killed with an embarrassed face was stronger, and the two sides chased after me, and the distance gradually widened, and after running out of more than ten miles, the black turban army had opened five or six miles.

Baili Yan reined in the reins of his horse and stopped his steps, and looked eastward, worried that the Black Turban Army was coming in formation.

"Su Hong!"

Bai Liyan shouted, and Su Hong panted and stepped forward to receive the order:

"The last general!"

"Go, take someone east to find out where the Black Turban Army has been, and report to me as soon as you find it."

"No!"

Su Hong led people to urge the horse away, and said to Lu Gao at the next moment:

"General Lu, let the horses rest for a while, eat some dried meat and drink some water, but don't get off the horse!"

"No!"

Baili Yan estimated that the horses of the black turban cavalry were tired, and chased more than ten miles in one breath, and could not catch up with these five or six miles in a short time.

At this time, the red tassel of the spear was already full of blood, slowly dripping with dark red blood, Bai Liyan took out the saber and cut off the red tassel, took out the white cloth from the leather box on his waist, wiped the blood stains on the barrel of the spear, and replaced it with a new red tassel, which was tied under the head of the long-bladed spear.

Nowadays, there is no red tassel in the spear, most of them there is no precedent, and there is no experience summary, and the second is that the spear head has flower spikes, which can't help but make people laugh.

In fact, the red tassel is not only a decoration, but also can prevent the blood splashed when the tip of the gun pierces the human body, spraying on one's face and affecting the vision, and at the same time, the blood drips to the ground along the red tassel, so that the large strands will flow along the gun shaft to the hand and slip, causing unnecessary accidents.

If a shot could have pierced the enemy's armor and made the enemy lose the ability to fight back, but because of the slippage of his hand, instead of piercing the enemy, he staggered forward two steps and fell under the enemy's sword, which really became a tragedy of giving his own head.