Text Chapter 108, Reinforcements (4)

Li Guoqi and Hu Dawei didn't wait too long, they waited for the thousands of people that Fu Yuanxian had regrouped. After everyone converged, Li Guoqi grabbed Hu Dawei with one hand and shouted at Fu Yuanxian: "Your Excellency, the last general has captured this dog that escaped from the battle!" ”

"Your Excellency the Governor, the last general is going to catch He Dalong!" Hu Dawei also hurriedly shouted, "Lord Governor, what the last general hates most in his life is this kind of bastard who escaped from the pit brothers!" At that time, as soon as the last general saw He Dalong take the lead and run, he was so angry in his heart that he felt that his chest was about to explode. At that time, the last general thought: 'Lao Tzu just won't fight the rogues, and he will destroy you!' As a result, the general's brain was hot, and he couldn't care about anything, so he went to chase after the big dragon...... Lord Governor, the last general, the last general really didn't run away! ”

The words of these two guys almost made Fu Yuanxian angry. If Fu Yuanxian was a traverser, he would definitely think of Prime Minister Zhuge Cheng's famous words for the first time: "I have never seen such a brazen person!" But at this time, he can't actually tell what the two of them are. These two people are both general soldiers, and in terms of rank, they are high-ranking officials of the second rank. Although he had Shang Fang's sword in his hand, he did not have the authority to kill the second-grade officials. And there are few soldiers around him who can really listen to him, and Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi have a large team of personal soldiers around them. really turned his face, maybe people could let him "die honorably" in the battle with the rogues on the spot.

Looking at these two shameless people, Fu Yuanxian didn't say anything for a long time, and after a while, he said: "Our army has not escaped yet." The two generals must work together, and if there is a thief army again, they must not ......"

"Don't worry, Lord Governor!" Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi hurriedly patted their chests and shouted, "How can the last general be the kind of person who has no fart to have a son. Eye thing for people? ”

Hu Dawei added: "Your Excellency the Governor, you know, in this life, the first thing he hated was the bastard who escaped from the battle, the second hated was the rogue, the third hated was the Tartar, and the fourth ...... It's too late for the last general to see them desperately! Hu Dawei said nonsense, and almost messed up a "seven hatreds".

Fu Yuanxian was not in the mood to listen to their nonsense at this time, he was now busy taking advantage of the dawn to organize the team and form a queue of people with weapons to prepare for a possible battle. But after last night, of the 3,000 people he had gathered, less than 1,000 had weapons, and as for armor or anything, there was not a single one. These things were all placed on the vehicle, and it was so chaotic at that time, it was too late for everyone to escape, how could they throw it back and take the armor to wear? Besides, if you really wear this thing, how can you still run? Is there no reason why the flight of the defeated side is often described as "throwing away the armor"?

After selecting those who still had weapons and forming a team, Fu Yuanxian took these people to continue westward. At this time, behind them, there was already a high level of dust. Needless to say, this must be a large number of "thieves" rushing over. In today's situation, fighting with the "thief army" is almost looking for death. So Fu Yuanxian had no choice but to take these thousands of people and hurry to the west. After running like this for about half an hour, everyone was tired and hungry. Look ahead is Wanjialing.

Although Wanjialing is called a ridge, it is actually just some low mounds with a height of no more than 50 zhang. If anyone can fly into the sky and get a bird's-eye view of the past, these mounds will look like a pile of steamed buns. Most of the mounds are bare, with no trees, and the official road winds through the middle of these steamed bun-like mounds.

Because the "thief army" behind was chasing closely, although he knew that Wanjialing was easy to be ambushed here, Fu Yuanxian could not send scouts to investigate carefully, but could only continue along the official road.

"If the thieves ambush the next team here, then we are in danger." Fu Yuanxian said to Hu Dawei who was on the side, "When the time comes, you can only rely on the cavalry of General Hu to break a bloody road." ”

Hu Dawei frowned and said: "Your Excellency, the moment the ambush soldiers rush out is the most critical, the important thing for the cavalry is speed, if there is no speed, there will be no impact, and it will be difficult to rush away from the thieves." And be sure to rush to it when it's most suitable. Therefore, the cavalry of the last general cannot be in front, and the infantry must be in front, and the cavalry of the last general should follow behind the infantry. ”

Fu Yuanxian glanced at him, as if he was a little suspicious of his cowardice, but he still nodded and said, "Okay, then arrange it like this." ”

The armed infantry were placed at the front, followed by the cavalry of Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi, and then more unarmed soldiers. They walked along the crooked official road into the mound of steamed buns.

Tian Xiucheng was naturally prepared for a long time, and he did not completely arrange his infantry in that mound, but placed it at the exit where the official road extended from those mounds. The reason for this is that it is relatively wide, so it is easy to deploy your own troops. On the other hand, it also limited the deployment of enemy forces.

He also placed some archers on the mound at the exit, and let them hide on the back of the mound, so that they could attack the enemy from a high position.

Finally, there were the five hundred cavalry in his hands, which he kept by his side and used them at critical times, as well as in pursuit thereafter.

At this time, the soldiers were all sitting on the ground resting, and Tian Xiucheng stood in front and looked at the mound over there. A scout was running down from the mound and running towards Tian Xiucheng. The scout ran to Tian Xiucheng and half-knelt down to salute: "General Tian, the officers and soldiers are here." ”

"How many people came? What's the situation? Tian Xiucheng asked.

"How many people can't see clearly, there is always a look of three or five thousand." The scout replied, "But the enemy looks disorganized, and there are no flags. ”

At that time, the command of the army often had to look at the flag, if an army did not have a flag, the battle would be particularly troublesome, when the battle of Qilu long spoon, the Lu army defeated the Qi army in one go, after the defeat of the Qi army, Cao Di did not immediately pursue, but "climb the Shi and look at it", "look at its flag" before ordering the pursuit of the enemy. It is because after the enemy army loses the flag, it is difficult to command, and the possibility of defeating and then killing the horse gun is very small. Today's officers and soldiers have several thousand people, but there are no flags, which shows that they have indeed just lost the battle and fled.

Tian Xiucheng had a number in his heart, so he asked again: "How far is it?" ”

"There's still more than half a mile, and we can come here in about a quarter of an hour." The scout replied.

Tian Xiucheng said to the scout: "You continue to stare." Then he ordered the soldiers to stand up and put on their armor.

The soldiers all got up from the ground and began to help each other put on their armor. Then pick up the weapon placed next to it and put on a mandarin duck formation. And behind the mounds on both sides, the archers also picked up their longbows and were ready to shoot. As soon as these preparations were completed, the chaotic footsteps of the army as they marched were heard ahead.

"Let the archers prepare!" In charge of commanding the archers was the young general Liu Fangming, who was in a position where he could better see the officers and soldiers, and he also issued such an order at this time.

The archers stood beside them with their longbows and grabbed an arrow stuck in the ground beside them. At this time, the officers and soldiers also bypassed the last mound and appeared in front of Tian Xiucheng.

"Shoot the arrows!" Tian Xiucheng waved his hand down.

The archers drew their bows and shot their arrows at the officers. The self-made longbow of the revolutionary army could only use heavy arrows, and its range was quite limited, but it was very powerful. Now the distance between the two sides is actually only thirty paces, and the condescending archers increase the power of the bow and arrow. In addition, the officers and soldiers did not have armor, and this round of random arrows suddenly knocked down dozens of people. After two rounds of arrow rain, the men with weapons in the front row of the officers and soldiers had already fallen. At this time, the tiger squat cannon in front of Tian Xiucheng's mandarin duck array also fired.

After the capture of Luoyang, the revolutionary army's mandarin duck array was almost no different from Qi Dashuai's mandarin duck array in terms of shape, and the muskets and tiger squat cannons that were not available before were also supplemented. Of course, these muskets and tiger squat cannons are also created by my Dazhao Ministry of Industry, and naturally they are inevitably the problem of cutting corners, so there should still be a gap in performance between these things and the muskets and artillery used by Qi Dashuai himself back then. However, in the face of these officers and soldiers who don't even have leather armor, even these tiger squat cannons that cut corners can also kill people.

The six tiger squatting cannons on the front fired a salvo, and a large piece of rubble and iron sand swept over, knocking down dozens of people. At this time, the front line of officers and soldiers was completely disorganized.

"Forward!" Tian Xiucheng shouted.

The infantry of the Mandarin Duck Formation began to approach the official army. This section of the road was narrow, and after a sudden blow, some officers and soldiers wanted to turn back. But Hu Dawei, who was behind, led the cavalry to suppress the rear formation, and Hu Dawei ordered that anyone who dared to retreat would be beheaded directly. His cavalry cut off dozens of heads in one go, forcing these officers and soldiers to rush forward towards Tian Xiucheng and them.

The weapons in the hands of these champions were not very neat, some had spears, others only had waist knives. The spear is not in an array, as for the waist knife, this thing is just a secondary weapon for self-defense on the battlefield, against the mandarin duck array, the front of the people is blocked with a big shield, and the back is wolf, and the spear is stabbed straight over, either there is a spear but not an array, or only the officers and soldiers with short soldiers cannot resist at all. The battle formation is not a competition, the team on the battlefield is dense, even if you fill up all the agility points, there is no place for you to move and dodge. In this state, the short soldiers and the long spears that are not in a row are completely powerless in front of the mandarin duck formation. The tide of battle immediately turned one-sided. In just half an hour, in front of the mandarin duck array, more than 200 people had already fallen.

The other officers and soldiers could not bear it any longer, so they turned and fled. This time, even Hu Dawei's cavalry couldn't stop them from retreating. Hu Dawei originally thought that forcing them up in this way would at least create some chaos and create a chance for himself to break through, but now, these routs have even disrupted Hu Dawei and Li Guoqi's cavalry.

"My lord, we can't get out in front, let's turn back!" Hu Dawei had to say this to Fu Yuanxian.