38. The fool does not count his death
The next day, in the territory of the Wu clan.
When the time came, Yan Xing had already commanded the Guanxi army, lined up ahead of the Cao army, and took advantage of the mist that had not yet dissipated, step by step to force the Cao army's camp.
In the face of the menacing enemy army in Guanxi, the Cao army was not to be outdone, under the command of Cao Cao, all units of the Cao army had a good time, in a short period of time the whole army lined up, accompanied by the thunderous war drums, the battalion rode out of the horse, and the enemy army in the west of the country marched in the opposite direction.
The two armies finally stopped one after another a hundred zhang away. At the sound of the order, the orders of both sides galloped back and forth, and the longitudinal military formation immediately spread out horizontally like eagles spreading their wings, turning into a horizontal formation of equal strength and rows of rows.
Because the northeast corner preemptively occupied several high grounds, the large formation of the central army of the Cao army was closer to the right flank, and because the southwest plain was more conducive to the cavalry assault, the large formation of the Chinese army of the Yan army was also close to the right flank of its own side, and the large army of the Chinese army on both sides formed a diagonal line because of the confrontation.
As soon as the horn of the battle array sounded, the light cavalry of the Yan army jumped out of their horses and began to launch a temptation, sweeping the array and cavalry shooting, attacking the Cao army's military formation.
In the face of the attack of the enemy cavalry, the old pawns in the front of the Cao army behaved quite indifferently, in the shouts of the military officials, the old pawns in the front row set up a big tree, set up a spear, and the crossbowmen on both sides counterattacked with their hands and feet······
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Yan Jun Zhongjun.
"It seems that the cold winter weather has weakened the crossbow tendon horn a lot."
Peng Shifa, who was gathered around Yan Xing, was looking at the battlefield from afar, looking at the black dots flying over both the enemy and us, and turned his head to the others and said.
"Well, but this is even more disadvantageous to the Cao army, the strong bow and hard crossbow have less strength, which is not conducive to defending against the assault of the cavalry."
Yang Fu added.
At this time, Yang Feng also came to the horse and reported to Yan Xing:
"General, the enemy is well prepared, and the rangers cannot shake their formation. Looking at its banner, the enemy army is an elite veteran led by Cao Cao, the left flank is the enemy general Xiahou Yuan, and the right flank is Cao Hongbu guarding the high ground. ”
"What about Cao's cavalry?"
Yan Xing frowned and asked, the terrain they occupied was obviously inferior to the Cao army, and in the fierce battle between the two armies, the speed of knowing the battlefield situation and making troop movements was slower than that of the Cao army, so it was necessary to be vigilant at all times for the cavalry unit in the Cao army that also had the ability to quickly assault.
"According to the roundabout scouts, the enemy cavalry is currently deployed between the center and the left flank of the enemy army."
"Hmm." Yan Xing nodded, and he raised his hand in the chariot and gave a solemn order.
"Rangers retreat, drums attack!"
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Cao Jun Zhongjun.
"Ming Gong, the enemy army is beating the drum and attacking!"
Liu Ye pointed to the enemy foot soldiers who were marching forward in formation with the trumpets and drums, and reported to Cao Cao in a loud voice.
"In addition to the Chinese army's Yan Yan's department, the enemy's left flank has many foot soldiers, which is the banner of the enemy general Lu Yi, and the right flank is the banner of the enemy general Ganling, and there are many cavalry in the formation, and some of the cavalry have begun to detour."
"It's okay, Miaocai, Zihe and others have been prepared, although there are many enemy horses, there is no place for them. Ordered the right flank, the enemy general Lu Yi soldiers, let Zilian guard the high ground, not let the enemy take it. ”
"No!"
Liu Ye hurriedly ordered the Chinese military to ride to the right flank, while Cao Cao held the chariot and gave a loud order.
"Beat the drum and trumpet, beat the thief!"
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In the eyes of the mountain eagles hovering high in the sky foraging, in this spacious and open land, suddenly two more torrents were surging in each other's directions. The soapy torrent flows fast and surging, and from time to time small tributaries emerge into the distance; The dark torrent is more like a lake where an undercurrent gathers, slowly spreading out to accommodate the rapidly surging soapy tributaries······
It wanted to swoop down and get a closer bird's-eye view of the confluence of the two torrents, but the chaotic array of arrows in the low altitude made it daunting, and even more arrows flew in its direction, and the mountain eagle could only make a few noises to stop the eagle chirp in the clouds, and then fluttered its long eagle feathers, and with the help of the wind, climbed into the sky and soared away.
On the battle array, as Cao Cao and others had expected, the Guanxi infantry under the command of Yan Xing was fierce and good at fighting, and the offensive of the Chinese army was like a frenzy, with waves not stopping, and wave after wave rising, breaking into the military formation of Cao's army one after another.
For a time, the original neat Cao army formation became staggered, although the Cao army soldiers struggled to meet the attack, but still from time to time by the enemy infantry into the formation, fortunately, the Chinese army Le Jin, Han Hao and other generals were calm, calmly commanded, and repelled the enemy's infantry again and again.
On the left flank, the outflanked Yang Qiu cavalry also suffered from the threat of Cao Jun's bow and crossbow and the entanglement of the cavalry of the enemy general Cao Chun's department, the two cavalry were entangled back and forth on the flank of the main battlefield, Yang Qiu could not get rid of Cao Chun's pursuit and entanglement in a short time, but the Guanxi cavalry relied on a large number of them, and divided into a whole part of the evil, and continued to go deep in a roundabout way.
On the battlefield on the right flank, Cao Hong's troops, who had an obvious terrain advantage, blocked the attack of the Lu Yi army, and on the high ground, Zhu Ling commanded the crossbowmen to continue to pour arrow rain on the heads of the attacking enemy troops with a commanding position, strangling the offensive momentum of the Lu Yi army.
Cao Jun Zhongjun.
"Ming Gong, the left flank has come to report, there are a large number of enemy cavalry, and some cavalry have gotten rid of the flank entanglement and continue to detour to the rear of our army."
In the hustle and bustle of the battle array, Liu Ye reported to Cao Cao loudly.
"Lone knows. Tell Boda (Ren Jun) that he must rely on a strong bow and a crossbow and a cart antlers to block the enemy cavalry of the assault rear army. ”
"Also, tell Miaocai that Lone will not send him any more troops, so that he must hold the left flank position, otherwise, come and see him!"
"No!"
Liu Ye hurried away again. Cao Cao turned his gaze back to the battlefield, it seems that he still underestimated the elite generals under Yan Yan's command, these mixed soldiers of Guanxi Qin and Hu have been fighting a hundred battles, skilled in battle, and they are also the advantage of the cavalry in the north, and they are really the strongest and tricky enemy troops they have encountered on the battlefield since their horse conquest.
Cao Cao was not stingy with the troops at hand, ignoring the safety of Xiahou Yuan, Cao Chun and others, but he had already vaguely felt that as the Chinese army that gathered the most elite infantry under Yan Yan's command, it was Yan Xing's greatest reliance in this battle.
"Report !! The enemy's ironclad cavalry is in battle! ”
Sure enough, not long after the battle reached a stalemate, there was an urgent report from the front of the battle that Yan Yan sent his ironclad cavalry across the western part of the country.
On the battle array, accompanied by the sound of roaring horses' hooves, as soon as the roaring and thundering ironclad cavalry appeared, the attacking Kansai soldiers suddenly cheered and bold, and every time in the past battle, once there was a situation where the enemy and our armies were stalemate, the ironclad cavalry who were recuperated and recharged would be ordered to fall into battle and cut off the generals and hold the flag.
These warriors selected from the Qin and Han armies, riding Hexi horses, standing tall, men and horses are armoured, arrows are difficult to hurt, galloping wildly, like a heavy hammer on the enemy's military formation, everywhere they go, the enemy formation is cracked and collapsed.
This time, no less.
As soon as the soldiers who struggled to resist the Cao army encountered the enemy's ironclad cavalry, they all trembled, and the charging armored cavalry was long and over, and the Cao army's military formation that was still in the fierce battle was like being ploughed by the iron plow, and instantly sunken into a large piece, and after the ironclad cavalry who had not diminished the momentum of the charge was trapped, they abandoned the long arm that stood up when they charged, and replaced it with a sabre and iron bone duo that were more handy in close combat, slashing and hammering left and right, and forcibly disrupted the entire combat formation of the Cao army.
Cao General Han Hao was not spared in this round of the impact of the enemy's ironclad cavalry, he was in the middle of the military formation, he was swept by the iron bones in the hands of a charging ironclad cavalry, the breastplate was dented, and the whole person flew out of the horse in an instant. After he landed, his mouth was covered with blood, and he died without saying a word.
The soldiers and horses of the Kansai region, who were fighting fiercely with the Cao army, took advantage of this opportunity to follow the trapped ironclad cavalry into the formation, killing the frightened Cao army and retreating, and successively defeated several Chinese army formations of the Cao army in a short period of time.
"This is it!"
Yan Junzhongjun, Yan Xing's Daxu had already followed the attacking infantry and slowly advanced, and when his vision became wider, he saw several Cao Jun formations in the distance collapse, he laughed, stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of that place, and said loudly.
Although these military formations were just a corner of the entire battlefield where the two armies were fighting, Yan Xing, who had sent the ironclad cavalry, had already keenly captured this fleeting fighter, and he did not hesitate to give the order.
"Let Boyang (Yang Feng) lead the troops to attack, Cao's formation has been broken, and we will see Mount Tai collapse in front!"
After Yan Xing's military order was delivered, Yang Feng soon launched a more powerful and fierce offensive with Lu Ying, Lu Guang and other generals. And this time, although the troops and horses were dispatched, the Cao army's military formation, which had not had time to completely repair the battle line and plug the flaws, was unable to withstand the comprehensive impact of the Kansai infantry cavalry, and the entire Chinese army's front gradually collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and this unfavorable trend was still rapidly spreading to the left and right flanks.
Soon after the enemy's ironclad cavalry was trapped, Cao Cao once again received an urgent report from the former army general Le Jin.
"Report !! The enemy offensive was like a tide, the Han Protector was killed in battle, Captain Le was wounded, and the front army could not resist! ”
Hearing the bad news that the Chinese army's front was fully broken through by the Guanxi infantry in advance, Rao is Cao Cao's heart was already as solid as iron, and his straight body standing on the chariot still couldn't help but tremble.
Seeing this, Cao Ang, who had been following Cao Cao, hurriedly reached out to support his father, but was quickly pushed away by Cao Cao.
Han Hao was killed in battle, Le Jin was wounded, and the elite soldiers under their command also suffered heavy losses, the front of the Chinese army has collapsed, and countless frightened Cao soldiers are retreating step by step, although the harsh and ruthless military law forced them to dare not flee at this time, but the trend of the complete collapse of the entire battle situation induced by the Chinese army has become more and more obvious and clear.
But he must not be chaotic, and the Chinese army cannot be shaken in the slightest.
Cao Cao, who was holding the chariot tightly, looked at the battle situation in the distance, which was shaking and retreating, and the battle situation was becoming more and more unfavorable, although he wanted to look back, but he still forcibly held back.
Guo Jia, who has been hiding, and the basalt banner he carried, should also appear!