Chapter 199: Battle of the Yellow Turban (I)
The differences between the so-called regular army and the bandits are not innumerable, but the most important points are the three points of ordnance, training and organization. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ο½ο½ο½Uο½Eγ infoThe former can ensure that the sergeants in the regular army can crush each other in terms of equipment, the latter two can make the non-commissioned soldiers more combative, and the other can ensure that the non-commissioned soldiers on the battlefield will not become a group of stragglers.
There is no doubt that the bow and crossbow are also a component of ordnance. In the case of a powerful long-range strike force, no one will give up not using it, but will carry the blade up and fight with others. It is also very common to give the opponent a baptism with a rain of arrows before fighting.
Under the previous dense rain of arrows, Xu He paid the price of at least five or six hundred people before rushing in front of Yan Shao's army array, but then the soldiers under his tent had to face a strong shield. And the soldiers who were ready to attack behind the shields.
Facing the strong array composed of shields, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, which only had ordinary knives and guns in his hands and even sharpened wooden sticks, could not break through at all, and the corpses that had been stabbed to death by spears accumulated in front of the shield array, and after a while, a 'wall' about one meter high was piled up.
It's just that no matter how indestructible the formation is, there will still be a day when it will be breached, not to mention that they are still facing the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. Even if he is not as good as Zhang Yan's Black Mountain thief, he is definitely not something that ordinary people can despise.
After Xu He sent the elite under his tent, a gap was opened in the originally neat shield array, and countless Qingzhou yellow turbans poured in. The first few soldiers behind the shield poked their spears into a sieve-like shape, but the yellow scarves that poured in then swallowed them up in the tide.
Seeing that the Qingzhou yellow scarves were constantly pouring in on the battlefield, Guan Hai looked at Yan Shao.
Yan Shao bowed slightly. "General Guan, I'll trouble you and General Zhou to teach them some lessons!"
"No!" Guan Hai hugged his fists and greeted Zhou Cang excitedly, and the two rode on horseback and rushed in the direction of the military formation, and the sergeants along the way neatly gave way to a passage for the two.
I saw Guan Hai wielding a big knife and smashing into the formation like a bamboo, followed by a few cronies.
In the other direction, Zhou Cangzhi is not as active as him, at least not as eye-catching as him, but the Qingzhou Yellow Turban that died in his hands is not a small number. As I said before, even if he knew very well that these were Taiping Dao brothers in front of him, if he had the kindness of a woman on the battlefield, it would not be far from him hanging on the battlefield.
So on weekdays, he may repent, but when he arrives on the battlefield, he never shows mercy to his subordinates, and after a quarter of an hour, there are as many as a dozen people who died in Zhou Cang's hands.
The two of them were so active that they also drove the situation on the battlefield to some extent. The Beihai soldiers and horses who were originally in a defensive posture gradually changed into an offensive posture, and for a while, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban and the Beihai soldiers and horses on the battlefield were inseparable, and at this time, it was precisely the most suitable moment for the generals to show their bravery.
As a general in the army, Tai Shi Ci is not suitable for light movement, and in case of an emergency, someone also needs to be responsible for pressing the formation, Tai Shi Ci can only quietly watch Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong each bring some cronies to kill. When the matter came to an end, only one Sun Guan was left with him and Yan Shao.
Seeing Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and others so active on the battlefield, Tai Shi Ci was also a little envious in his heart. However, he knew very well what his duties were, so he didn't move at will, but looked back at Yan Shao. "Lord, this Xu He really deserves his reputation..."
Yan Shao also nodded and said in agreement. "Indeed, it seems that this Xu He is not an opponent that can be easily solved, and it is really a little unrealistic to want to defeat these thieves in one day..." Zhongtai, it looks like you're going to have to wait a little longer..."
Sun Guan hugged his fists, but he was also a little helpless.
According to the original plan, if these Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were just a rabble, the Dare First Army of his headquarters would give these thieves a hard blow from behind when the war was in a stalemate.
Considering the attack ability of the Dare First Army, coupled with the fact that the enemy was attacked on the back of the abdomen, the enemy army was bound to be chaotic, and the probability of breaking through with one blow at that time was definitely not low. But now it seems that the advantage of the Yellow Turban on the opposite side in terms of numbers is still too great, and the number of soldiers and horses invested in the offensive is already countless, but this Xu He still has some troops in his hands, and he doesn't know if it is as a follow-up reserve, or if he is guarding against something.
However, in this way, it is inconvenient for Yan Shao to put the Dare First Army on the battlefield.
If the elite of the Dare First Army can certainly achieve the point of being one enemy and ten, this does not mean that every time there is a tough battle, these elites in the army must be put into the battlefield. Because a tough battle means a huge number of casualties, especially when it comes to using cavalry to impact the military formation, even the most elite cavalry casualties are definitely not small.
The cost of forming an elite cavalry such as Dare Xianjun is simply astronomical.
When the Dare First Army was formed, Yan Shao also spent a lot of effort. This is also thanks to Wu Huan's southward movement, which allowed Yan Shao to capture many good horses. With the help of Jia Cong, who was the pastor of Jizhou at that time, he reluctantly prepared for the daring army of only more than 1,000 people.
And after taking over the government affairs of Beihai, every time he saw the cost of daring to be the first army, Dong Zhao's heart would be cramped.
It's not that he's stingy, but the cost of more than a thousand people who dare to go first, which is really big and amazing.
As Yan Shao's housekeeper, every time he issued a budget, Dong Zhao would drip blood in his heart.
If he really sent such elites into battle every time there was a tough battle, even if it was only one-third or one-fifth of the casualties, Yan Shao couldn't afford such a price. Therefore, such an elite can only be sent into battle if they have the certainty of victory, or when it comes to a crisis, otherwise it is better to hide it.
The North Sea is rich, but if it happens every time, I am afraid that it will also collapse financially.
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Not to mention how depressed Sun was when he watched Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong kill in front of them. Zhao Yun and the others were born like killing gods, and the lives in their hands were already uncountable. Especially Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, they are even more like unequaled. Not long after he was on the exhibition hall, the lives in his hands were already much more than Guan Hai and Zhou Cangjia together, which made people have to marvel at the martial arts of the two.
However, the martial arts of the two were amazed in the eyes of Yan Shao, but they were like evil ghosts in the eyes of the surrounding yellow scarves.
In the end, almost no one dared to approach the two. After being approached by the two, the first reaction of the yellow turbans around them was not to meet the enemy, but to retreat or even flee.
After a while, I saw that the situation on the battlefield had been captured by the four of them.
"Zhao Zilong, take your life!" But it was the leader of the Yellow Turban Army who aimed at Zhao Yun.
In the chaotic army, it is not a place for military generals to mow the grass, and mowing the grass also means that they will be targeted by other generals. Zhao Yun's martial arts are so superb, there are no less than dozens of thieves who have died under his hands, but he doesn't even scratch at all, plus a white robe and silver armor, it is not surprising why others would target him.
The leader carried a large knife in his hand and wore a rudimentary armor that looked no different from the ordinary Yellow Turban leader. If there is anything different, I am afraid that the only thing is the light of the brain, which is very dazzling under the sun.
was targeted by the enemy general, Zhao Yun didn't care, just rode his horse and rushed towards the leader.
Seeing that the two were about to fight, at this time, a horse suddenly rushed out from the position behind Zhao Yun's side, but there was also a yellow turban leader, carrying a spear in his hand, and stabbed directly in the direction of Zhao Yun's back/
The leader of the previous challenge took all this into his eyes, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but show a smile.
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Before the Tiger Prison Pass, he fought with Tai Shici against Lu Bu, and such stories have long been famous all over the world. If Zhao Yun was just an unknown small character before the Tiger Prison Pass, then now he has become one of the few fierce generals todayββββββ you must know that Zhao Yun at that time was just an ordinary pawn, and it was already beyond imagination to be able to fight with Lu Bu with Tai Shici.
Although this leader has some courage, but when it comes to martial arts, not to mention the previous Bao Zhong, even compared to that Li Gang, it is much inferior. Even if he ate the bear's heart and leopard gall, he would definitely not have the confidence to challenge Zhao Yun. What gave him the courage to face Zhao Yun was nothing more than two words: 'cheating'...
Challenge yourself in front to attract Zhao Yun's attention, and then let your companions sneak attack from behind. No matter how you look at it, this is definitely the method with the highest success rate, unless Zhao Yun also has eyes in the back of his head, otherwise there is only a dead end in the face of his own sneak attackββββββ reasonable, in fact, the best way is to use a bow and arrow, as long as a cold arrow, storage can solve many problems.
I don't know how many famous ministers and fierce generals in history, aren't they all dead in the loss of random arrows? Just like Sun Ce's father Sun Jian, didn't he also die under the random arrows, I have to say that this Jiangdong Tiger, the person who really solved Huaxiong in history died really enough.
and that Zhou Yu, who was also severely injured by a stray arrow in the romance, and Guan Yu left an allusion to 'scraping bones and healing' because of this.
However, the Yellow Turban is not an official army after all, and there are no specially trained shooters. Even those leaders were just ordinary people in the past, and they were only forced to participate in the uprising out of desperation. That's it, and there is not a single working bow in the whole army.
This is one of the reasons why there are very few archers among the Yellow Turbans, and it is difficult for them to form a large-scale arrow formation without bows and crossbows, let alone such difficult things as 'random arrows'.
Of course, it is impossible to say that none of them can shoot arrows, as I said before, the main source of personnel in the Yellow Turban is all kinds of people who can't survive, which of course includes many hunters. It's just that these are still a little less numerous, not to mention that there happens to be a boss who knows archery next to the battlefield or something.
It's just that...
Just when the leader in charge of attracting attention thought that this sneak attack would be successful, he found that Zhao Yun seemed to really have eyes in the back of his head, and actually used the tail part of the spear to block the spear that stabbed him one step in advance.
The spear in Zhao Yun's hand was as fast as lightning, and almost before the leader in charge of the sneak attack could react, the position of the tail of the spear had already pierced the armor on his body.
After the two corpses fell from the horse, Zhao Yun barely looked at them, and rode his horse on.
I have to say that the bravery of the generals still has a deep impact on the morale of the soldiers on the battlefield. For example, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, these lawnmowers, almost killed the yellow scarves in front of them, and none of them dared to stop in front of them along the way.
Coupled with extraordinary martial arts, if they weren't still human, there would be times when they were exhausted, even if they killed all the way in front of Xu He, it was not impossible.
With the sound of Mingjin, the yellow scarves on the opposite side took the lead in retreating.
Seeing them retreat, Yan Shao didn't take advantage of the situation to kill them, but followed Mingjin.
Zhao Yun gasped on the horse's back, as he said before, manpower is sometimes exhausted, even he has times when he is exhausted. After this battle, there were at least more than 100 thieves who died under Zhao Yun's hands, and there were more than ten thieves who stepped forward to challenge.
However, just like those who wanted to sneak attack before, none of these people had the courage to challenge Zhao Yun head-on, almost all of them relied on their own large number of people to besiege Zhao Yun.
What they didn't expect was that Zhao Yun's martial arts were so strong, even if there were three or four people besieging him at the same time, they couldn't help Zhao Yun, but they were stabbed off the horse by Zhao Yun one after another. Except for one who was more fortunate and fled the battlefield with injuries, none of the rest could leave a lifeββββββ no matter from which point of view, Zhao Yun was definitely not a soft-hearted person, but he was more principled than others.
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Each of them collected their troops, leaving the corpses of both sides on the battlefield.
Some of them were not yet dead, and they were abandoned in the middle of the battlefield, with screams and wails, and they completely closed their eyes in despair.
Inside the camp, Xu He's face was ugly, and a leader next to him who seemed to be his cronies was explaining to him today's casualties.
By any measure, today's casualties are definitely not a small number. But this is not important, what really annoys Xu He is the battle situation today, although the Qingzhou Yellow Turban occupies an absolute advantage in numbers, but the advantage on the scene is always the opposite side, especially in terms of the proportion of casualties, Yan Shao's side is much stronger than Xu He.
In fact, if it was just the exchange ratio of casualties, Xu He would have been used to this kind of thing for a long time since he had more casualties than the officers and soldiers. After all, the Yellow Turban Army is far inferior to the official army in both armament and other aspects, the only advantage is that there are enough people, and there are those low-level Yellow Turban life, even if there are many deaths, as long as they can hold the back of an officer and soldier, it is enoughββββββ for these Yellow Turban soldiers who are struggling on the line of death, it is the only hope to allocate a life on the battlefield.
But in any case, all this needs to be premised on the premise that the casualty exchange ratio must be a little better.
But no matter how you look at it today, the loss on my side is a bit big.
And...
"The generals under Yan Shao's account are indeed brave, and many brothers in the army have failed to challenge them, and they have just counted that there are as many as forty or fifty brothers who died directly from those fierce generals under Yan Shao's account..."
It should be said that the Yellow Turbans are relatively classless, and they are all referred to as brothers. But if anyone believes this kind of thing, thinking that there is really no class to speak of, it is really too naΓ―ve.
The people who challenged Zhao Yun and them before were all the leaders of the 100,000 Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, and only these are qualified to be called the word 'challenge'.
And after the battle, the other party picked out and killed forty or fifty people, no matter how you look at it, this number is a bit too much. Even if there are more than 100,000 yellow scarves here, how many of them can be called leaders? There are only more than 1,000 people, in other words, this battle has reduced the management of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans by almost one-twentieth, and they are all backbones, including Bao Zhong.
"Marshal, in my opinion, this Yan Shao is indeed different from ordinary people, but I have a lot of soldiers, and I won't be afraid of him, but the fierce generals under his account are really troublesome, if you don't think of a way. Not to mention how many brothers will die at their hands, even if it is a blow to morale..."
"What can you do?" Xu He turned his head sideways and looked over.
In fact, he is also thinking about this problem, there are more people to die, the key is to hit morale.
As the leaders of the army, these people should be the most elite members of the 100,000 Yellow Turbans. Forty or fifty of them died, and on a few occasions they were even killed when multiple people challenged one, which hurt morale a bit too much.
If we don't find a way to solve this problem, the toll on morale will be unimaginable.
"In my opinion, the brothers below can avoid facing Yan Shao's generals alone, or gather enough people to go together. Before the Tiger Prison Pass on the front line, the three brothers Liu Guan and Zhang also had a brief confrontation with Lu Bu, and the three of them were about to draw with Lu Bu, and now we can also learn to do this, so that the brothers with the strongest martial arts in the army can come out and act together with each other, if they find these people, they will come forward and delay, not to kill the enemy, but to drag them down..."
Hearing this, Xu He groaned for a while, and then nodded slowly for a long time.
"So, that's fine..."