One hundred and sixty-eighth
Far east, the beautiful sun leaps out of the horizon and shines brightly on the earth, and it is the best time of the day, when a great war that determines the course of history begins.
In the camp, the flag was waving and the war drums were beating, which was a signal that the troops were about to be dispatched.
Except for the 70,000 Yuan troops who remained, and the more than 3,000 people led by Han Meng defended the camp and served as a reserve, the rest were all here, and they marched steadily to the beat of the drums, with swords and spears lined up, armor and armor, and they moved with amazing momentum. Looking down from the air, I saw that the position was endless, and the black pressure was full of human heads.
"Heaven...... Dead ......"
"Huang Tian...... Be ......"
The Montenegrin Army was advancing and shouting slogans hoarsely, why did the Montenegrin Army shout the slogans of the Yellow Turban Army? I don't know about this either. I'll tell you because otaku can't come up with any other slogans for the Montenegrin Army? The already exuberant momentum is still rising.
On the other hand, the 70,000 Yuan army did not say a word, but only advanced in silence, like a reef in the sea.
Nine hundred steps, eight hundred steps, seven hundred steps......
At three hundred paces, the crossbowmen began to shoot, and the arrows in the sky were like raindrops, covering the sky and the sun, and on both sides there were large numbers of soldiers who fell with arrows, like wheat that had been cut off in the sky, and each had a piece of space appeared.
But on the whole, the well-armored and well-equipped Han army was much better than the Montenegrin army, after all, the lethality of the leather armor and arrow feathers was much weakened, and after a while, more soldiers on both sides poured up from behind to fill these gaps.
The 5,000 cavalry of the rear army led by Zhang He originally mounted their horses and marched slowly, bypassing the left flank and then trotting on their horses, and when they were a thousand paces away from the Yellow Turban camp, they left behind the slow left wing infantry and urged the cavalry to gallop.
Zhang He took the lead, thousands of elite horsemen with spears and knives in hand, and fought bravely to be the first, lest they fall behind.
Soon the horse's hooves flew up, galloping thunder, and dust and smoke rolling, like arrows off the string piercing the left flank position of the Montenegrin army.
Because the Yuan army lined up all the cavalry in the rear army, correspondingly, the Montenegrin army also lined up the remaining more than 1,000 cavalry in the rear army, trying to wait until they knew which direction the Yuan army's cavalry would attack and immediately support and confront.
Relying on these more than 1,000 cavalry alone was obviously not enough to compete with the 5,000 elite cavalry of the Yuan army, Yang Feng transferred another 20,000 foot soldiers to assist, including 2,000 elites with complete armor and fine armor.
The two thousand elites were at the forefront, plunging their huge shields deep into the earth, and their spears were placed on them, their spearheads glittering with cold light, and they were eerie.
It was clearly prepared to rely on these impregnable walls to block the onslaught of the cavalry.
The task of the left flank of the Montenegrin army, that is, to hold on, is like a heavy shield, trying to block the sharp spear led by Zhang He.
When Gao Ran led the army to help, it was because Lu Xiang, Lu Kuang and others were dragged by the elite armor and could not complete the work, Zhang He would not make the same mistake as Gao Lan.
When the two armies gathered two hundred paces, the leading Zhang He and Jiang Yiqu reined in their horses at the same time, and in the long neighing, the front hooves of the war horses rose into the air, turning ninety degrees in the air, and when the front hooves landed, the momentum of the forward rush had folded into left and right!
After changing direction, these Yizhou cavalry drew their bows and shot arrows at a rapid gallop, and in the sharp wind, the rain of arrows poured into the array of the Black Mountain Army without stopping.
Those heavy shields as tall as a man can only block the enemy in front of them, but they cannot stop the arrows falling from the sky.
Although the Yizhou cavalry is not as good at riding as the Huns and other foreign races, most of them have learned martial arts since childhood, and most of them are good at riding
Five thousand cavalry shuttled back and forth, sweeping the ranks of the Black Mountain Army like a storm, and the rain of arrows seemed endless.
There were screams in the Montenegrin army, and one after another the moth thieves fell with arrows, and blood splattered.
The archers of the Montenegrin army also began to return fire, but one was a stationary live target, and the other was a high-speed moving target, the latter being significantly more difficult.
The helpless and helpless Black Mountain sergeant listened to the arrows flying in his ears, and watched his companions fall one after another, more and more vacancies in the queue, and the originally dense formation slowly became sparse.
The screams, moans, cries for help, and commands mingled together, as if to mock the heavy, but useless shields.
The military discipline of the Montenegrin army was already very lax, and finally, a Montenegrin army who was unwilling to be used as a target by the cavalry shouted and rushed out, and before he could run two steps, he was shot like a hedgehog.
But with this example, more and more Montenegrin soldiers rushed out of the ranks. Carrying crude and rudimentary weapons, they poured towards the enemy, and the originally well-organized phalanx suddenly became chaotic.
Zhang He was waiting for this time, and at the sound of an order, the soldiers who were galloping and shooting just now quickly gathered together, lined up in formation, and held spears flat, urging the horses to kill at full speed.
Zhang He and Jiang Yiqu are still at the forefront, these two are congenital martial artists, especially Zhang He, who is already at the peak of congenital development, Jiang Yiqu usually looks like an ordinary honest person, and as soon as he goes to the battlefield, he is like a crazy demon.
The long knife weighing more than thirty pounds exuded a cold murderous aura, and with every swing, the Black Mountain sergeant in front of him was almost cut in half, the spear knife was broken, and the armor was smashed, but he still couldn't stop the sharp blade.
Zhang He is not far behind, a spear in his hand is like a life, stabbing, picking, sweeping, smashing, the end is unpredictable, he is not as bloody and rough as Jiang Yiqu, but the damage caused is far better than him.
Under the leadership of the two of them, the cavalry behind them fought bravely one by one.
Without the neat queue, without the blocking and easing of heavy shields, the messy soldiers of the Montenegrin Army were rushed to pieces as soon as they saw their faces, and their courage was commendable.
Although he is not afraid of life and death, sometimes the gap in strength cannot be made up by courage and faith. The cavalry of the Yuan army harvested human lives like chopping wood and wood.
Soon the first phalanx was routed, and the routs scattered and fled, Zhang He did not let anyone pursue, and the fierce horses continued to gallop, and they rushed to the second array.
The second array didn't do much better, and after a few moments of resistance, it was overwhelmed.
There were more than 4,000 elite cavalry left, and the follow-up was as unstoppable as an iron stream, and countless iron hoof spears crushed the Montenegrin soldiers who were scattered like a flood, and the soldiers and horses passed everywhere, leaving only the remains of corpses all over the ground.
The courage that Zhang Yan brought to the soldiers of the Montenegrin Army began to melt and disintegrate under the threat of spears and death, like seeing the ice and snow of the sun.
Some people have begun to be afraid, and this fear is spreading rapidly among the crowd.
It was this cavalry that turned the tide when the officers and soldiers were about to be defeated, making Tao Sheng's month-long layout fall short.
It was this cavalry, the tail of the Ouroboros pursued the strongest Tao Shengqu Shuai for several days, so that nearly 200,000 troops collapsed without a fight, and under the propaganda of the Montenegrin soldiers who fled back to Dingxiang City, Zhang He's cavalry has been mythologized.
And now they're here again!
The Black Mountain sergeants under Tao Sheng, who had been defeated by this cavalry, remembered the fear they had at their disposal, and no matter how much they shouted and threatened, they were all unable to move forward.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Yang Feng in the city immediately ordered more than 1,000 cavalry of the rear army to be dispatched to entangle the cavalry of the Yuan army, and urgently ordered his subordinates to gather the remnants of the army to form a new array defense line, and also mobilized a large number of archers on the left flank to prevent the Han army from repeating its old tricks.
All in all, it is a word, at all costs to block the cavalry of the rear army of the Han army, as long as this cavalry can be blocked, then the Yellow Turban has already won half of it, because the right flank of the Han army is already in danger.
The art of war is in harmony, so that the weak can defeat the strong, although the huge advantage in numbers, Yang Feng still put himself and the Yellow Turban in the position of the weak.
Leading the army to a head-on decisive battle can be described as positive, as for why it is about to collapse when you look at it like this? Yang Feng's gang directly put 2,000 dead soldiers of the Montenegrin Army wearing leather armor on the right flank, and these dead soldiers were all selected from the old background of the Montenegrin Army before and those who participated in the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
The 20,000 people on the right wing of the Yuan army, led by Lu Kuang, only assumed the role of covering and protecting the Chinese army, and most of them were composed of civilian volunteers and county soldiers, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low.
Where did I think that I would encounter it, the dead soldiers of the Montenegrin army, who were extremely powerful in the Montenegrin army, were already three points timid in their hearts when they were not fighting, and they immediately fell into the disadvantage after the battle.
Yang Feng, who fought against the water, showed extraordinary courage, and threw all the remaining 2,000 armor soldiers and hundreds of personal soldiers who were left as reserves on the right flank, leaving only a few people around him for interrogation.
Their accession made the right flank of the Han army even more precarious.
Once the right flank of Yuan's army was defeated, then the battle was basically lost in half.
Above the corner tower, Yan Liang's face became ugly, he didn't expect to be forced into a predicament by the small trick of the Black Mountain Army Tian Ji horse racing, he glanced at the right flank of Yuan Jun.
Although the cavalry led by Zhang He had already dashed the infantry on the left flank of the Montenegrin Army, the remaining infantry and more than 1,000 cavalry dragged them to death and could not get out of it in a short time.
He glanced at Han Meng and the three thousand people behind him who were waiting under the corner tower again, and they were able to kill Tao Sheng, so it can be seen that they must have something extraordinary.
As for why Han Meng is not a pioneer? Why is it only out now? The troops that Han Meng only got last night, the vanguard siege is okay, and if the field brings an unfamiliar army to let the family be the vanguard, it will be naked murder.
"Go, order Han Meng's troops to fight and hit the left flank of the Montenegrin Army." Yan Liang said to a herald behind him.
Not long after, Han Meng under the corner tower received an order from the general, ordering him to attack, and he suddenly perked up, and his eyes emitted a scorching light.
"It's finally our turn!" Han Meng's three thousand soldiers shouted excitedly, stood aside, looked down at the weapons in their hands and were silent.
turned over and said impassionedly, "The husband has made great achievements, just today!" β
"Make a difference!"
"Make a difference!"
The shouts of 3,000 people were inconspicuous on the battlefield of more than 400,000 people, but they seemed very resolute, which moved Yan Liang standing on the corner tower.
"Kill! Kill! Kill! β
Han Meng took the lead, and the whole person was like the left wing of the Tiger Zhipu Black Mountain Army, and at this moment, the left wing was in chaos, and there were corpses and bones everywhere.
Blood blooms, blood splashes, the five thousand cavalry led by Zhang He are now only about three thousand, the cavalry that has lost its mobility is simply the fish on the knife board, and everywhere you can see is a Yizhou cavalry who was not careless and was thrown off the war horse, and all that awaited them was death.
"Don't panic, a certain family is coming!"
In the past few days, Han Meng and Zhang He have slowly become familiar with each other, and the two have begun to call each other by name, as if they have known each other for many years.
"Get out of here!"
Han Meng slashed to death three Montenegrin soldiers who were blocking the road, and directly knocked a sword and shield hand away.
And at this moment, Han Meng's 3,000 people also followed Han Meng and rushed towards the Black Mountain army like a torrent.
In an instant, people turned their backs on their horses, and at this moment, Yang Feng was disdainful in his heart, just 3,000 people in Gado wanted to break through their left wing? The left wing initially deployed 40,000 men, and then 10,000 more.
Mo said that it was only 3,000 people, even if there were 3,000 more, Yang Feng was confident that he could eat it!
"Brother Han, you came just in time, you and I will join forces to kill together!"
Zhang He looked at Han Meng, who was already less than thirty meters away from him, and shouted excitedly, it was not that Zhang He's strength was too weak, but that the number of the Black Mountain Army was too much, and the cavalry led by Zhang He couldn't play their speed at all, and the cavalry without speed was simply sent to death in the sea of soldiers.
"Follow me! Rescue General Zhang! β
Han Meng naturally understood Yan Liang's idea of sending himself over, and under the leadership of Han Meng and Zhang He, the two troops finally converged.
"The infantry is outside, the cavalry is inside, kill me!"
With the addition of 3,000 infantry, coupled with the leadership of Han Meng, Zhang He, and Jiang Yiqu, the 3,000 infantry soldiers successfully blossomed in the encirclement and killed some gaps, and at this moment, Zhang He and the three of them also hurriedly acted as arrows, and led more than 3,000 cavalry to successfully kill through the left flank in front of the road.
"Straight to the middle army! No one is allowed to stay! β
After Zhang He hesitated for a moment, he decisively ordered, the cavalry penetrated the left flank, but the infantry was still dragging the enemy in the encirclement, according to the normal way of fighting.
Zhang He should now lead the cavalry to speed up and fight back again, as long as he can rush through again this time, then it will be a simple matter to defeat the left flank of the Montenegrin army.
But now that it is a decisive battle, Zhang He understands that defeating the left wing will not change anything, if he really wants to win this battle, then he must defeat the Chinese army, and even kill Yang Feng!
But if you don't rush back, it means that you have abandoned the 3,000 foot soldiers, 3,000 against more than 40,000 people, and even if the battle is won in the end, these 3,000 people may not be left.
"Woooooo
Just as Zhang He was about to attack Yang Feng directly, a horn sounded out, and a group of soldiers of the Black Mountain Army who looked to be about 50,000 people appeared.
Yan Liang, who was directly frightened, broke out in a cold sweat, and the soldiers of the Yuan army who discovered this situation also had the faces of dead fathers and mothers.
"Quick! Mingjin retreats! β
Although Yan Liang understood that it was taboo on the battlefield for Mingjin to withdraw troops at this moment, there was no way to do it, and if he didn't withdraw and wait for the soldiers of the Black Mountain Army to arrive, he might not be able to kill a person and run away.
"Hahaha! Brothers, kill! Our reinforcements are coming! β
Although he didn't know why there were reinforcements, Yang Feng guessed that it must have been the Black Mountain Army in Taihang Mountain.
"Follow me, let me break off!"
Yan Liang rushed to the battlefield with his five hundred personal guards, and after the horizontal knife immediately converged with Zhang He and the three of them, he and the remaining more than 2,000 Yizhou cavalry, like a city wall, tried to stop the Montenegrin army like a mudslide.
Finally, after paying more than 20,000 people's lives, Yan Liang and others repelled the pursuit of the Montenegrin army and successfully fled back to the camp.
"Strengthen your vigilance, I have sent someone to ask the lord for help, we just need to hold this place!"
Yan Liangqiang said in good spirits, in this battle, the Yuan army had nearly 40,000 dead and wounded, and the total number of soldiers with combat effectiveness was about 30,000.
"No!" The generals commanded.
"Brother Zilong? Why you? β
Yang Feng saw that the person who led the troops was actually an outsider, not the commander of his Black Mountain army, and the whole person was nervous, could it be that Taihang Mountain has now been occupied by Qingzhou Guan Hai God unknowingly?
"Brother Yang, don't panic, I'm just temporarily leading the troops, I heard that Brother Yang and General Zhang Yan are in deep trouble, and a certain family proposed to let the Taihang Mountain lead the troops to rescue, but unfortunately those people are all gutless rats, no one dares to come, I heard that Brother Tao Sheng was unfortunately killed, Zilong was worried about Brother Yang's safety, so he volunteered to lead the troops to come, and I hope Brother Yang will not be surprised!"
Zhao Yun naturally understood why Yang Feng had this expression, as for the temporary leader of the troops? Hehe, now the 200,000 originally left behind in Taihang Mountain, plus the defeated Montenegrin army that fled back, add up to more than 400,000, and they have all been bought by Zhang Song.
Today's Taihang Mountain has long since disbelieved Zhang, otherwise, how could it be that someone has led troops to rescue it until now?
"I see, I can't thank you enough for Zilong's affection!"
What Zhao Yun said, although Yang Feng was skeptical, he still believed it, after all, how much grass the people left behind were, and he himself understood that if those people had the courage to lead the troops to save themselves, it would be hell.
It was much more difficult to defend the camp than to defend the city, not to mention that they were surrounded by several times the Montenegrin army, and they didn't know if there were any reinforcements.
When the Montenegrin soldiers at the forefront of the Montenegrin Army were a hundred steps away from the north gate of the camp.
The crossbowman standing on the plank of the fence set up a large yellow crossbow and shot at the yellow turban.
The rhubarb crossbow is a very important kind of bow and crossbow in the Han Dynasty, which is divided into one stone to ten stone crossbows, and the rhubarb crossbow of ten stones is called the yellow shoulder crossbow and the rhubarb crossbow.
The rhubarb crossbow can shoot 350 paces, but it is not used by one person, and it is a sharp weapon against cavalry.
This kind of crossbow requires a force of 120 catties to draw a stone, and the lethality is particularly great.
The crossbowmen in Yuan's army used two-stone rhubarb crossbows. Every soldier is very strong.
The formation of the Montenegrin army is dense, the Yuan army has no false arrows, the soldiers of the Montenegrin army are all shot down, and the shields in the front row are as brittle as paper in front of the big yellow crossbow.
After the crossbowman fired a round, Yan Liang immediately ordered the remaining less than 5,000 archers to start firing arrows.
Although the bow and arrow could not penetrate the shield of the Montenegrin army, the rate of fire was fast, which slowed down the attack speed of the Montenegrin army.
Yang Feng, who was standing in the middle of the ranks of the Montenegrin army, ordered several Qu Shuai to lead most of the men and horses to surround the officers and soldiers camp, and besiege the officers and soldiers from the other three directions. to create pressure on officers and soldiers.
As for Zhao Yun, he doesn't plan to use it now, after all, doesn't it mean that he is not as good as Guan Hai? Do you still need to rely on the generals of Qingzhou to fight?
After a while, the Montenegrin army was in front of the Beizhai Gate, ambushing thousands of corpses, and the Yuan army also paid hundreds of people, and from time to time there were Montenegrin soldiers close to the gate and fence, and they were all stabbed back by spearmen.
Zhang He and Han Meng each led hundreds of soldiers to run on the long defensive line, and once there was a loophole, they would immediately fill it.
The Montenegrin army suffered heavy casualties in Beizhaimen, but it had not yet pushed a piece of wood, which made Yang Feng angry.
Yan Liang stood on the high platform of the Chinese army, looking in all directions.
The camp was surrounded by about 250,000 Montenegrin troops, like iron barrels. And the soldiers of the Yuan army only had a thin layer on the defensive.
Although the Black Mountain Army had the most fierce offensive and the most tragic battle, it still held it steadily.
On the contrary, the West Zhaimen is not optimistic, a section of the wooden wall has been torn down, and the Zhaimen is also crumbling.
"Let Jiang Yiqu lead a thousand people to support Xizhaimen!" Yan Liang ordered to the soldiers below.
"No!"
Jiang Yiqu received the order and led a thousand people to the west gate.
Half an hour later, Dongzhaimen and Nanzhaimen were also in short supply, and Yan Liang separated the last 2,000 soldiers and sent them to the two brothers, LΓΌ Xiang and LΓΌ Kuang.
"It's finally here!"
Seeing a burst of dust in the north, Yan Liang knew that Xu Yu was coming!
Stand tall and look far away. At this moment, Yang Feng and the other yellow scarves did not know.
Half a quarter of an hour later, the cavalry from the north appeared on the plain at the same time, accompanied by the deafening sound of horses' hooves, which directly drowned out the shouts of killing.