Chapter 61: The Mowing War
Yan Zheng took the weak Zhang Bao and led nearly 10,000 yellow scarves to follow Li Siyuan's retreat into the official road where Liu Chang was ambushed.
Suddenly, the advancing troops suddenly stopped, and before Yan Zheng could ask, a yellow scarf who had opened the road in front of him crawled to Yan Zheng's chariot and shouted pantingly: "Qu Shuai, it's not good, there is an ambush ahead!" ”
Yan Zheng was shocked when he heard this, and quickly stood up straight and looked up. I saw that three or four hundred steps away from the front of the army, a Han army infantry with a big shield and a spear, led by a chubby scribe riding a white horse, was solemnly waiting in front to block the way of the Yellow Turban Army. Yan Zheng estimated the number of people, about 3,000 people.
"Bastard, it's such a small person, what's all the fuss." Seeing that there were few people blocking the way, Yan Zheng immediately scolded the yellow scarf that reported the news, then drew his knife in his hand and shouted loudly, "The other party only has more than 3,000 people, and the whole army is charged!" Kill it! ”
"Rush~"
"Kill ......"
With Yan Zheng's order, the Yellow Turban Army rushed towards the Han army.
However, this is not an ordinary shield infantry in front of the Yellow Turban Army, it is a combination of Chinese and Western phalanx carefully trained by Liu Chang through Qin Qiong according to the appearance of the Roman phalanx and the Xiliang Fish Scale Formation heard of by later generations, with a total army of 3,000, each row of 300 divided into ten rows, arranged in a square, and was jokingly called the Xuanwu Army Formation by Liu Chang. At this moment, it is its inventor Liu Chang who commands this Xuanwu army.
Liu Chang was sitting on a variegated white horse specially allocated to him by Huangfu Song, holding the reins in his left hand, and gently shaking a pure white feather fan in his right hand, under which a red rope hung a string of glass ornaments, indicating that the fan was from a woman's hand. Dressed in an off-white scribe's uniform cut out of fine brocade, his long black hair was loosely draped over his shoulders, and his eyes looked at the ever-enlarged Yellow Turban Army in front of him playfully.
And accompanying Liu Chang was Li Siyuan, who had commanded five thousand crossbowmen before, and at this moment, he was looking closely at Liu Chang, who was in the front half of his body, and his eyes were full of admiration, admiration and expectation.
At a slightly farther distance is Liu Chang's original Manu Liu Asi, who is now serving as Liu Chang's herald and accompanying the army. To his left was the golden cart, on which a huge gold hung and a beater was on standby; On the right is the drum cart, and there is also a drummer on standby.
Suddenly, Liu Chang suddenly lifted the feather fan in his hand from his chest, and then suddenly fell back from the air to his chest.
Liu Asi looked at Liu Chang's movements, and immediately shouted excitedly: "Get up!" ”
The drummer on the right hand side hurriedly struck the big drum, and two short and one long drum beats suddenly came out.
"Wow"
As soon as the drums stopped, the three thousand foot soldiers all gathered their shields and took out their throwing guns, and their weapons were almost unanimous. This made Yan Zheng, who was supervising the battle in the Yellow Turban Army, feel a chill down his spine.
However, Liu Asi didn't care about Yan Zheng, who was afraid, and shouted loudly again, "Throw!" ”
The drums of war began again, one long and one short only twice.
"Woo Woo ......"
Three thousand spears were thrown into the air, and in an instant, there seemed to be a dark cloud in the sky, and the already gloomy sky was dim at the moment.
The charging yellow turbans subconsciously raised their temporary shields that had resisted the crossbow arrows in their hands, ready to resist the throwing guns.
It's a pity that the temporary shield can withstand the light feather arrows, but when it comes to this heavy throwing spear, it can only be said that the mantis arm is used as a car.
Three thousand guns fell, and more than 2,500 yellow turbans went to the yellow sky.
Some of them were broken armor and put on the ground with shields with a look of disbelief, some were shot by a spear and hit the person behind them, and a gourd was strung with a face full of horror, while some were shot several times and looked unwilling.
The drums continued to beat and the guns were thrown. After the second wave, nearly 2,000 yellow turbans were harvested again.
Suddenly, Liu Chang raised his feather fan slightly and fanned it towards the ground.
Liu Ah shouted in understanding: "Hold! ”
The drums stopped abruptly, and the gold sounded. At the same time, the three thousand soldiers put down their throwing guns at the same time, and the first row took out a large shield nearly a man high, while the back row took out a spear, and some of them were several feet long.
Liu Chang continued to wave the feather fan, but at this time it was changed to a large fan from the inside out.
Liu Ah Si was excited and shouted: "Enter!" ”
The drums beat again, this time continuously. And the 3,000 soldiers also stepped on the drum and slowly pushed forward.
The yellow turbans who had just been knocked out by two rounds of throwing guns saw that the other party was no longer throwing guns, but walked slowly over holding a turtle shell, which made them feel that they had an opportunity, so they spontaneously launched a charge without waiting for Yan Zheng's order.
However, a scene that broke the Yellow Turbans happened.
Just as the Yellow Turbans were charging towards them, only one step away, three thousand people followed the big shield soldiers at the head of the platoon and divided into three hundred under the order of "open". And in the cracks of these, there were spears of great length.
With the command of the captains at all levels in the military formation, the giant spear stabbed out, and at once pierced the Yellow Turban Warrior, who had not much armor. Three hundred, some of which were strung with three or four, and some with a dozen or so. Subsequently, the entire army array was again merged into a phalanx under the order of "close".
Yan Zheng, who was standing on the chariot and commanding the Yellow Turban battle, saw that half of the soldiers had been lost in the blink of an eye, which made him terrified. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he found a lot of smoke and dust from the direction of Quyang City, and it seemed that a large group of cavalry was coming here. I was anxious for a while, but suddenly I saw the woods on both sides, and my heart once again ignited the hope of life. One side shouted: "The whole army retreats into the woods." While carrying Zhang Bao and jumping off the chariot, he found a war horse and wanted to go to the forest on the right.
However, the heavens did not grant the wish. Or maybe the time limit for the yellow turban has arrived, and all the struggles are in vain. As the saying goes, if the king of Hades wants you to die three watches, you will not live four watches.
The sound of bangs in the forest was everywhere, and arrows continued to shoot from the forest to the yellow turban who was about to flee into the woods. In this defenseless situation, they were killed by arrows. Immediately, a tiger general held a double iron halberd and roared out: "Chen Liudianwei is here, the thief will quickly accept his life!" ”
Dian Wei said as he ran, and threw his halberd while running, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten yellow turbans were stabbed to death by the short halberd that was shot. Then he rushed into the crowd, picked up the double iron halberd, slashed left and right, and killed one person in one step, as if entering a no-man's land.
Yan Zheng saw Dian Wei's ferocity, so he had to take Zhang Bao and command the remaining more than 1,000 people to rush to the woods on the left.
However, as in the case on the right, after a bang, more than a thousand officers and soldiers appeared in the forest again, led by a scribe.
Yan Zheng led the remaining yellow scarves back to the official road, looked around, and saw that there were only a few hundred yellow scarves left with him, and there were 3,000 officers and troops in front, and there were more than 1,000 people on the left and right, in addition, the reinforcements from the direction of Quyang had also entered the field of vision, and as expected, the cavalry of Yishui was almost about 10,000 people.
"Stop, Zhang Bao is here, I'm willing to surrender!"
Liu Chang was commanding the Xuanwu Army to strangle the resisting Yellow Turbans with Guo Dian and Dian Wei's ambush soldiers, when he suddenly heard a person shouting for surrender.
When the yellow scarves saw that the beggar was none other than Zhang Bao's second disciple Yan Zheng, they were all dumbfounded for a while, and they threw their weapons on the ground. In less than a moment, the remaining more than 2,000 yellow scarves all knelt down and surrendered.
Seeing this, Liu Chang motioned for Li Siyuan to go and surrender.
However, at this moment, a bloody man burst out of the left forest and shouted: "Where is Zhang Bao!" Where is Zhang Bao! ”
Liu Chang fixed his eyes and looked at it, isn't this officially Julu guarding Guo Dian too much, what is the situation now. I didn't have time to think about it, and shouted, "Ugly, stop him." ”
Dian Wei, who was putting away the halberd, heard Liu Chang shouting, so he looked in the direction of Liu Chang's finger, and saw a bloody man roaring and looking for someone there. Without saying a word, he spread his legs and rushed to the man, went down with a knife in his hand, and immediately knocked the giant deer Taishou unconscious.
Subsequently, the surrender continued. When the newly arrived Cao Cao and Liu Bei admired and complimented Liu Chang, the men and horses of the two departments were pulled by Liu Chang to surrender and clean up the battlefield, which was called "equal interests".