Chapter 32: Stopping the First Battle of the Enemy

Since the soldiers believed in Qiu Yi, they stopped robbing it, and stepped forward to prepare to hand over their property to Qiu Yi for safekeeping. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info didn't wait for Lu Ping, Cheng Qi and other guards to take over the property, suddenly the sound of killing under the city sounded, and a team of yellow turban horsemen suddenly came out of the city, and there were yellow turban moth thieves pouring out behind with continuous reinforcements.

Hundreds of horsemen rushed into battle, the momentum was amazing, and Qiu Yi couldn't help but be shocked. The soldiers under his command have just formed the first battle of the army, and have never encountered the charging of hundreds of enemy horsemen, at this time they are scattered because of the robbery of property, and the army formation has been chaotic, and they are not under their control, that is, the people's hearts have been in chaos, and they all have the intention of retreating and fleeing for their lives.

Che La also shouted badly, shouting: "Wait for the army, the Yellow Turban thieves took advantage of our army's scattered and disorganized to loot property, and sent troops to attack. The enemy cavalry saw that it was coming in an instant, and our army could not form an army in a short time, so it was necessary to retreat quickly. ”

Qiu started as a horse seller, Qiu Yi as Qiu's moth, he has been good at riding since he was a child, and he doesn't know how to travel three miles, dozens of breaths away. If the army in the dream is okay, it will definitely have time to form a formation, but the army led by it now will not work. The enemy cavalry had already traveled nearly half the distance, and the whole army was still in confusion. I'm afraid that even if they are given three more times, it will be difficult to form a formation for a while.

It's just that if he turns around and flees, the two hundred soldiers under his command will be pursued by the enemy cavalry, and he may lose more than half, and it is more likely that he will be completely annihilated, which is not what Qiu Yi wants. Qiu Yisi and Che La said that there are three things for the generals, one is to be courageous, dare to fight and dare to die, isn't this exactly what is needed now.

Qiu Yi looked at the oncoming and fierce more than 100 enemy horsemen, and couldn't help but roar, and said: "General Chetun, quickly form an army to meet the enemy, and this army is waiting to go to block the enemy for you." Then he slapped his horse, took his bow, and charged the enemy horseman.

Che La couldn't help but be stunned for a while, only to see Qiu Yi riding a horse alone, and in a few breaths, he ran out more than ten zhang away, and then turned the horse's head and ran towards the side of the enemy's horse. The soldiers didn't know what to do, and Cheng Qi and Lu Ping were so anxious that they kicked and scolded and ordered the whole army to form a formation, and those who didn't listen raised their sheaths and beat them.

Che La said with a smile: "How long has the old man not seen such a daring general, General Tian Tun, quickly reorganize the army, the old man is also going to stop the enemy." With that, he also patted his horse and galloped away.

The enemy cavalry did not know how to ride the battle, and the hundred horsemen were divided into several columns, each column had a horizontal plane of fifty paces, some gathered and some scattered, some fast and some slow, like driving sheep. Qiu Yi ran to the far left side of the enemy horse, stretched out his hand to feel the wind speed, and then put two pots of quivers in a convenient place, and took out three arrows from the quiver to prepare.

The longbow in his hand can only shoot at a distance of ninety paces, and the tension is strongest within sixty paces, and if you want to be accurate on a horse, you have to wait until within forty paces. Seeing the enemy horse approaching, Qiu Yi took a deep breath and slapped his horse on the side of the enemy horse and galloped. Seeing the outer three horsemen of the enemy's horse, the longbow was as fast as lightning, and three arrows shot out in one go. Qiu Yi was not in a hurry to see if the enemy horseman was hit or not, he sat down and galloped diagonally, and then moved closer to the other enemy horses.

Qiu Yixian is like a thunderbolt, two arrows in one breath, arrows are like beads, and when he sees someone, he shoots an arrow, and halfway through the journey, he has shot out twenty arrows. Qiu Yi made it a heavy arrow, there were only ten arrows per cylinder, and there were no arrows in his hand after the two arrows were shot. He was about to draw out the ring head knife and charge, not wanting to usher in a horse on the opposite side, so he held the bow in his right hand and pulled the string with his left hand, and the same arrow was like a bead, and the rate of fire was amazing.

Looking up, the enemy horsemen on the left side screamed and fell off their horses, and they had been shot down, leaving only the horses with empty saddles, and because there was no one to control them, the horse's pace gradually slowed down, or they turned to the battlefield and ran elsewhere.

It turned out to be an old fellow of Chela, who made a three-stone hard bow, a strong bow that could shoot one hundred and twenty paces, and within eighty steps, the enemy riders should not fall off their horses. And he made light arrows, each with as many as thirty arrows, and at this time he had just shot half a barrel of arrows.

Seeing that Qiu Yi had no arrows, Che La couldn't help laughing and shouted: "The Yellow Turban thieves have no armor, they are not fierce beasts in the mountains, and the middle ones will lose their combat power, but they don't need good heavy arrows, light arrows can be used." "Then a few arrows were fired.

After the rapid blows of Qiu Yi and Che La, the Yellow Turban Thieves rode more than 30 fallen horses, which can be described as an arrow. Frightened, the Yellow Turban thieves behind them scattered one after another, not daring to rush towards the two again. The soldiers under Qiu Yi's command couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief without the threat of enemy cavalry, and the speed of forming a formation couldn't help but be a few points faster, and it didn't take long to form two hundred-person army formations in front and behind.

Qiu Yi looked at the scattered enemy cavalry and the approaching thousand-man Yellow Turban Formation, and asked, "General Che Laotun, what should our army do now?" ”

Che La waved his bow and pointed with a smile: "The Yellow Turban thieves each hold swords, and they gather together, and they seem to be in several formations. But the middle part is protruding and advancing rapidly, and the two wings are too hesitant, and they seem to be in a circle. The spear is in the middle, the sword and shield hand is on the side, the attack is not like the attack, and the defense is not like the defense, it can be seen that the thief will not understand the art of the battle formation at all. Our army only needs to shoot directly at the thieves' middle with archers, disrupt the thieves' middle army, and then break through from the middle with sword and shield hands to disrupt the enemy's formation, and the spearmen will expand the results on both sides after the spearmen, and the thieves will definitely be able to break the thief army. ”

Qiu Yi nodded reassuringly and said, "In this way, our army will retreat." ”

Che La exclaimed: "What? Why ......"

Qiu Yi explained: "Our army is just a song of the vanguard of the front, and we are only here to detect the enemy's situation, and it is good to win one game, and there is no need to defeat the thieves." Otherwise, the thieves will close the city again, and it will be difficult to attack. Now it is better to retreat and flee for your life, show the enemy weakness, and be arrogant. ”

Hearing this, Che La praised: "Qiu Jun is waiting for a small victory without being arrogant, and he can defeat the big enemy but retreat from the heart of the arrogant giant enemy, and then go to the bottom of the battle, this is the talent of a good general, and the old man admires it." ”

Qiu Yi shook his head with a smile and said: "Che Laotun will have an overreputation, in the eyes of a real good general, I am just a child's trip, how can I be called a wise and good talent." By the way, the enemy army is not close, you and I can first gather these empty horses to replenish military resources. ”

On the second day, the Zhaoling army sent all its combat strength, and the 1,800 troops marched from the big camp ten miles away to the city of Yunxian to stand in formation. Qiu Yi's retreat without a fight yesterday made the thief leader Du Li breathe a sigh of relief. It seems that although the officers and troops who came from Zhaoling were stronger than the Yellow Turban Army, they were not too strong. There are as many as 9,000 Yellow Turban troops in the city, and in addition to the old and weak, there are also 7,000 people, who can still fight against them.

In the past two months, Du Li has been like a fish in water in Yun County, and it is unpleasant to live and kill. When I was a slave and a maidservant, how did I know that I could enjoy such a blessing today? On weekdays, the wives of wealthy families who are high in the sky have been played and humiliated to death by themselves, and there are no less than dozens of people. The princes and nobles have killed more than 100 people, and now Yun County is empty, or it can be transferred to another place. It's just that the southeast, northwest, and northwest have not yet been decided, and they heard the news that there are troops coming from the direction of Zhaoling.

Well, then, when you break the official army that came to Zhaoling today, let's go to Zhaoling. I heard that Zhaoling has been in the past few years, but it is not as good as Yunxian County, where disasters have continued, and there is a shortage of money and food. went to Zhaoling, or you can continue to enjoy the blessings for a few months. Du Li has made up his mind, and immediately summoned the Yellow Turban Leader of the former Yun County, the deputy general Liao Hui and the deputy general Du Yuan, the son of the son, to come to discuss, wanting to move the whole army to Runan Zhaoling after today's battle.

Outside the city of Yunxian City, the Zhaoling Army is divided into six formations, standing in the northeast corner of the city, the front formation is a vanguard of 400 people, the middle army is a 300 people, the left and right wings are each a 300 people, the rear guard is 400 people, and there is a group of 100 horsemen under the command of Su Heng, far away in the east to get off the horse and wait.

The Yellow Turban thieves are divided into three formations, the left, the middle and the right, of which there are 3,000 people in the Chinese army, and 2,000 people in each of the left and right formations.

Qiu Yi turned his head to look at the banner of the Chinese army, and after going back yesterday to report the enemy situation of the main general Gong Zhang, Gong Zhang discussed with the generals and agreed to today's general offensive strategy. However, in order to keep the Yellow Turban thieves away from the city, the vanguard needs to be defeated for a while, and wait for the army to retreat for several miles before counterattacking. It's just that Yiqu Fangji didn't want to cheat and fail, so the heavy responsibility fell on Qiu Yi's head.

Qiu Yi had the experience of retreating from the enemy's leading army yesterday, and felt that he could be competent for either one, but he did not shirk it, and happily received this order, which made the generals look sideways. However, if the enemy is lured to retreat, the soldiers may have unnecessary casualties, which makes Qiu Yi a little unbearable. But Che La also said that for the sake of the general, there must be no woman's kindness, and the loss must not be less. Qiu Yi couldn't help but put a little thought into it, trying not to look at the faces of the soldiers under his command.

The two armies were two hundred paces apart, each standing quietly, but the endurance of the Yellow Turban Thief Army was insufficient, and after a while, there was a buzzing noise. The banners and swords couldn't help but bow down, and the array began to be a little scattered, and some people squatted down in front of the formation to relieve their hands, and the thieves kept shouting and scolding.

Qiu Yi sighed secretly, such a rabble, even if it is doubled, the army can win in one battle. It's just that because of the fear that the thieves avoided entering the city without fighting, the army was too seriously injured in attacking the city, or because of the lack of food and grass, they had to deceive the defeat and show weakness first.

The Chinese army ordered the flag to wave, ordering Qiu Yi's troops to attack, Qiu Yi was about to give an order, and suddenly saw a future rushing out of the right formation of the thief army, and the horse galloping from a hundred steps away in the formation, shouted even more violently: "I am Du Yuan, the general of the Yellow Turban of Yuncheng!" Wait for the dog officer, who dares to go out to fight me? ”

Qiu Yi couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and turned to ask Che Ladao: "Che Lao Tun General, what does the thief mean?" ”

Che Lafu said: "This is the heads-up of the generals, in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, the army fought in scattered formations, because the soldiers were basically temporarily recruited from the people, and they didn't even understand the command flag, so how to line up and fight?" Therefore, the victory or defeat of the war depends entirely on the generals who drive the chariots and charge into battle. The soldiers who followed the chariot closely were only auxiliary to rush with the chariot to kill the defeated soldiers. They neither dare to rush to the front, nor dare to fall to the queen mother, when the chariot wins, they will kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions, and when the chariot is defeated, they will scatter as birds and beasts. Therefore, in the era of chariot warfare, the main force of combat was the general, not the soldier. ”

"By the time of the pre-Qin period, the warriors' courage and belligerence were unabated, especially in order to be able to show their bravery in front of the king, or to be noticed and promoted by the king, and over time, it evolved into a heads-up before the battle. However, heads-up should be used to test the courage of the enemy's generals or take the opportunity to attack the enemy's morale when the two armies are arrayed at the initial meeting. And most of the people who went out of the battle were the subordinates of Tun, Qu, and partial generals, but they were by no means as good as the thief army, and even a group of main generals personally went out to call for battle. ”