Chapter 687: Victory Outside the Territory
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After all, the main energy of the coalition army of the Western Regions is on the front, and under the absolute superiority in numbers, if the Han army can withstand the offensive of the coalition forces of the Western Regions, then there will be ghosts.
The Chinese army is difficult, but the main attack on the left and right flanks of the Han army, but this is not the case, the flank formation of the Western Regions coalition army, undoubtedly very unprepared, when Dong Zhuo and Xu Rong will be the Western Regions countries coalition sent by the two intercepted cavalry breakthrough, two thousand Youzhou cavalry, will directly plunge into the Western Regions countries coalition army formation.
At this moment, the generals of the Western Regions were shocked, they knew the strength of their own army, don't look at their large numbers, but because the Han army attacked Han Sui too quickly, when Han Sui asked for help, they didn't have time to prepare.
In a hurry, in addition to the standing soldiers and horses in the country, the other soldiers and horses of the Western Regions countries were actually temporarily assembled soldiers and horses, and some were even so-called dismounted infantry, and their combat effectiveness was really worrying.
Before, all the countries in the Western Regions fought against Han Sui's army, and naturally understood the combat power of Han Sui's army, for the Han army under Han Sui, although they could suppress the development of Han Sui's army with population strength, but this does not mean that they are completely superior to each other in terms of combat power.
On the contrary, it was the Han people of the Han Sui Department who repeatedly defeated them, if it weren't for their numerical advantage, I am afraid that the Western Regions would have been surnamed Han a long time ago, so they naturally paid more attention to the Han army that was said to have defeated the Han Sui Department and fled to the Western Regions.
Before the battle, the coalition forces of the Western Regions countries put the elite among the countries in front of the army, in order to prevent the main force of the Han army from crushing their own front at the beginning of the battle, after all, the Han Sui army impressed them too deeply, if they faced the Han army that was more powerful than the Han Sui army, they chose the safest method, which was to use the elite in front of the battle array, and the Han army to the death.
It's just that the tactics of the Han army were unexpected by the coalition forces of the Western Regions, after all, it stands to reason that the Han army has 5,000 cavalry against them 30,000 people.
However, until now, the Han army dared to divide its troops and divide the originally small number of soldiers and horses into three routes, which was really beyond the expectations of the coalition forces of the Western Regions.
Of course, even so, as far as the coalition forces of the Western Regions are concerned, they can only deal with it in this way, if the Han army can defeat them with those 2,000 cavalry, then it can only be said that the will of heaven is so, they are against it, and they are helpless.
"Kill!"
The two thousand Youzhou cavalry, ignoring the many soldiers and horses on both wings of the Western Regions Alliance, eliminated the interceptors and horses sent by the two wings of the Western Regions Alliance, and then went straight into the enemy formation.
I saw that the bloody wind and rain rose in an instant, mixed with the shouting and killing sound of Hu Chinese, resounding in this vast desert.
At the beginning, the two wings of the Western Regions Coalition Army were still able to withstand the charge of the Youzhou Raiders, but with the two generals Dong Zhuo and Xu Rong, they urged the soldiers to advance again and again, and fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the two thousand carefully selected Youzhou Cavalry, like the killing gods in hell, completely smashed the two wings of the Western Regions Coalition Army that had just stabilized.
Since the restoration of Guangwu, they have always turned the impossible into a possibility, Liu Xiu can win the world with them, and today, they can also win the Western Regions for the Han Dynasty!
The two wings of the coalition army of the Western Regions, the two thousand cavalry of the Han army, suddenly launched a madness, which suddenly loosened the military formation of the coalition army of the Western Regions countries, which was not elite, and the two wings were loosened, and the most intuitive change was that the formation of the Chinese army of the coalition army of the Western Regions countries began to be unstable, and even the coalition army of the Western Regions countries with the front of the military formation had no follow-up strength.
This scene was keenly captured by Cao Cao, who had just escaped, and at that moment, he called for all the cavalry under his command again and again to rush into the enemy army and fight again.
It's just that the Yuzhou soldiers under his command are obviously not very suitable for this kind of large-scale corps battle, especially the cavalry corps struggle, and obviously cannot quickly converge the formation and change the offensive.
However, the impossibility of Yuzhou soldiers does not mean that the thousand Youzhou soldiers left by Dong Zhuo to Cao Cao are impossible, at this moment, Sima Liu Bei, the chief general of a thousand Youzhou commandos under Cao Cao, heard Cao Cao's call, looked at the military formation of the coalition forces of the Western Regions in front of him, and immediately ordered left and right, and quickly charged towards the enemy's military formation.
At that time, Liu was helped by the recruitment and followed Qiu Yi to Danyang to recruit troops, but before he was halfway, the general He Jin was killed, Yuan Shao rebelled, and the way out of Liu Bei's career just became obviously dark. Very.
However, Liu Bei's luck was obviously good, and when he took some of the soldiers and horses he recruited, he met the Xuzhou thieves when he was in Xiapi, and immediately led the soldiers and horses back to the sky to fight with the thieves, so he made meritorious contributions to the thieves.
Originally, if it was someone else, of course, he would be rewarded by the local governor of the prefecture and county because of this matter, and he would be appointed as an official, but Liu Bei had already become the remnant of the general He Jin because of the recruitment of soldiers, which was a taboo for officials in the world, so even if he made meritorious service, he was not promoted by the officials of Xuzhou because of this, but reported his whereabouts to the Beijing division and was handled by Fuquan.
Later, when Fu Quan learned that Uncle Liu Huang, who had not yet made a career, was still like history, failed to recruit troops, and made meritorious contributions in addition to thieves, he couldn't help but sigh at the similarity of fate.
Of course, with such a good card, this is not Fuquan's style of doing things, at the moment in the name of the hussar general's mansion, Liu Bei was recruited into Beijing, and then he found a position in the forbidden army in Beijing, appeased it, called reuse, in fact, it is just surveillance.
For the later Emperor Zhaolie, the ancestor of the Han Lie, who had spent half his life and finally became a late bloomer, Fuquan attached great importance to it, just like he did to Cao Cao, if it weren't for Sun Jian being controlled by him in his own camp early, I'm afraid he would have to be like Cao Cao and Liu Bei, to enter the observation and freezing period of Fuquan, and then decide whether to reuse it.
Fu Quan knew that none of them could be easily trusted, and no one knew when their ambitions would swell, and they could only continue to reuse if they were sure that they were okay first.
However, it was said that Liu Bei led his confidant Zhang Fei to gather dozens of horsemen beside him, thinking that he was the first to rush into the military formation of the alliance forces of the Western Regions. These dozens of horsemen are all hometown soldiers brought from Youzhou since Liu Bei joined the army in the past, and they are all elite soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles in the sea of swords and fires, Yan Zhao people have been brave since ancient times, and there are fierce generals like Zhang Fei, at this moment they are attacking the enemy formation, and they are naturally not ambiguous at all.
I saw that dozens of people rode tightly around Liu Bei, but whenever the Hu clan of the Western Regions dared to approach, they were swords and spears, and flesh and blood were splashed, and soon, the front army of the Western Regions Coalition Army was loosened, and then the rest of the Youzhou Assault Cavalry, taking advantage of the situation, suddenly opened a gap in the originally stable formation of the Western Regions Coalition Army.
Then, Cao Cao in the rear saw this, once again sorted out the Yuzhou cavalry around him, and ordered the whole army to press, and the Yuzhou soldiers whose formation had not yet converged were also dispersed when they saw that the formation of the coalition forces of the Western Regions was also dispersed, and they didn't care about themselves at the moment, and followed Cao Cao to charge on horseback.
At the same time, on the left and right flanks, Dong Zhuo and Xu Rong also took the remaining nearly 1,000 cavalry under their command to break through to the center of the coalition army of the Western Regions.
Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other generals saw this, shouted to break the enemy, and they were also the first soldiers, for a while, the morale of the Han army was greatly boosted, and the Hu coalition army formation was slowly pushed back.
The inevitable reaction of the whole army's formation being pressed back by the enemy is that the entire army formation retreats, coupled with the fact that the left and right flanks of the coalition army are interspersed with Han cavalry, the result of this battle is not surprising.
After about half a day of fighting, the Han army became more and more courageous, on the other hand, the Hu coalition army in the Western Regions, most of them were temporarily recruited soldiers, after the Han cavalry repeatedly tore and cut off the military formation, the morale became weaker and weaker, and finally I don't know which country's soldiers, the first to flee regardless of the order, and then triggered a large-scale escape.
The Han cavalry pursued for several miles before being stopped by Dong Zhuo, although Dong Zhuo was eager to kill more people and achieve military exploits, but it did not mean that he was stupid. If you keep driving the enemy army without any scruples, then the army will be lucky to find the way back in the future, if you get lost and fall into the enemy's trap, it will be worth the loss.
In this battle, at the cost of more than 1,200 killed and nearly 2,000 wounded, the Han army defeated 30,000 allied troops of the Western Regions, beheaded more than 8,000 people, captured about 4,000 people, and the rest fled.
However, Dong Zhuo, as the main general, was not happy, among the Han army that went out of the fortress, especially the border army, had experienced a lot of battles and had extremely rich combat experience, it can be said that each of them was a valuable asset, if he could, he would rather exchange 4,000 prisoners for more than 1,000 Han troops who died in battle.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Dong Zhuo ordered the whole army to return to the camp to defend it, and at the same time quickly reported the situation of Fude and investigated the military situation of the main army. With this fiasco, they should not dare to send troops from this place for the time being, after all, the strength of the Han army has made them understand the gap between each other after this display, and in a short time, they can only take a detour if they want to rescue Han Sui.
Of course, at this time, another battlefield, has already been killed all over the field, in the face of the strength of the Han Sui army, the Han army fought extremely difficult, especially at the beginning of the war, Han Sui repeatedly used tricks, so that the Han army was deceived, although the loss to the Han army was not large, but the morale of the Han army was affected a lot.
If it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the Han army were under the control of the generals of various departments, stabilized their morale, survived the treacherous situation of the Han army at the beginning, survived the automatic collapse of those large bed crossbows in the Han Sui army, and confronted the Han Sui army from all sides, the balance of victory would have tilted towards the Han army.
As Han Sui's army formation became smaller and smaller, and the army under their command became smaller and smaller, it was a matter of time before this battle ended.
In the military array, Han Sui kept looking forward to the south, eager for the support of the countries of the Western Regions, he knew that if a soldier and horse appeared at this time, it was really possible to turn the battle around, but the time had already passed the original agreement, where were the reinforcements from the countries of the Western Regions?
Before the war, if it weren't for the guarantee of reinforcements, Han Sui would not have taken out the soldiers and horses he had accumulated so without hesitation, after all, if he couldn't fight, he Han Sui could directly take his soldiers and flee to the west of the Western Regions, instead of waiting here to die?
It is said that he is waiting for death, in fact, it is very reasonable, after all, if there is no accident, as the formation of Han Sui's army is further compressed by the Han army, the fate of these Han Sui's soldiers will be obvious.
In the end, in the absence of foreign aid from Han Sui's army, the Han army broke through the Han Sui army's formation, broke Han Sui's army, killed 20,000 enemies, captured more than 20,000 people under Han Sui, the leader of the thief, and the rest died or fled.
Then, Fu De divided his troops and ordered people to take over Han Sui's other territories, and according to Fu Quan's plan, after taking the territory, he would vigorously recruit and win over the Hu people in the Western Regions to pacify them.