One hundred and sixty-seven: Fierce Battle!
Frustrated and looked at the crowd on both sides, and couldn't see the crowd at a glance, he sighed: "This Yellow Turban Army really can't be killed, I think that Qingzhou Guanhai is now sitting in a state, known as a million people, I didn't expect that the Black Mountain Army that changed its name is also a million people, if this kind of strength is obtained by my lord, why worry about the world is not decided?" ”
Chun Yuqiong flattered: "What the military advisor said is very true, General Yan led the wings and the elite soldiers of the two states, fought against the millions of people in the Black Mountain Army, reported the kindness of the lord, and established an immortal fame, compared to the King of Chu to stay in the marquis, it is not much better, and in the future, we and others will definitely leave their names in history." ”
Yan Liang said angrily: "There are tens of thousands of soldiers, this is not my wish." I would rather open a museum to teach martial arts, spread martial arts, and hope that everyone in my Han Dynasty is like a dragon, even if the historical books are not heard, there are no regrets! ”
Yan Liang was originally a member of the Yan family in Hebei, and the Yan family was originally a martial arts family, if it wasn't for the chaos that happened to happen, Yan Liang's life would naturally be a lifelong martial arts practitioner, plain and unremarkable like his father.
After Yan Liang touched a soft nail that was not big or small, Chun Yu Qiong retreated, Chun Yu Qiong flattered Yan Liang, just hoping to ease the relationship between the two, after all, although he is Yuan Shao's friend, Yan Liang is also Yuan Shao's henchman, and the two tigers are losing when they win or lose.
Standing on the top of the corner tower, from time to time, messengers from various departments rushed from each formation, and went to the bottom of the watchtower and said: "A certain unit has finished the formation, waiting for the general's order!"
The vanguard under Han Meng's command had also been assembled, and he looked at it, three thousand people formed a formation similar to an arrow, different from the trembling and nervous restraints of other phalanxes, he found that many soldiers in the formation were actually talking to each other, whispering, especially Han Meng's own five hundred soldiers.
Yan Liang shook his head, it seems that the county soldiers are unsightly, and it seems that the county soldiers will have to practice more in the future. However, Zhang He's rear army, which had just taken over, was silent with 5,000 people, showing good military discipline.
"General, Yang Feng has landed in the city."
The sharp-eyed lieutenant pointed to the head of Dingxiang City and shouted.
Everyone looked into the distance, and a large number of torches were lit at the head of Dingxiang City, like a winding fire snake, illuminating the twilight before the morning light.
Frustrated with his eyesight, he could only vaguely see two figures hugging in front of a group of Qu Shuai and climbing to the South City Tower to watch the battle.
Two people, why two people? Frustrated and puzzled, one is Yang Feng, and who is the other?
It would be nice if Koji Yoshiki was there, and he would definitely be able to see it clearly with his eyesight.
The other lieutenants had the same questions as Fu Yu, but they were soon told the answer.
"General! It's the general! ”
"The general is the messenger of Huang Yue God, and he will definitely lead us to a life without oppression, how can he die."
"Victory! Win! ”
There were deafening cheers in the Montenegrin army, and the soldiers under Zhang Yan's command whispered even more excitedly, and finally they all converged into four words.
"General Zhang Yan!"
They all shouted Zhang Yan's name, shouting so loudly that their faces turned red and shouted hoarsely, this is not just a name, but a kind of hope, after all, there are enough people and big and small canal marshals who have died since the attack on the state, and now the nominal leader Zhang Yan is already the motivation for them to live.
The already sloppy military spirit quickly condensed at this moment, and the low morale rose instantly, and even Yan Liang, who was far away on the corner tower, could feel the momentum like a rainbow.
"What's the matter, didn't you say that Zhang Yan was seriously ill?"
"Who the hell is in this city?"
"This is a conspiracy, this must be a conspiracy of the Montenegrin Army."
The panicked captains of the Yuan military academy talked a lot, and some people glanced at Zhang He if they didn't know that before Yan Liang took a fancy to Zhang He and Zhang He, the battle attack to defeat Tao Sheng was really strong and terrifying, I am afraid that someone would have jumped out to accuse him.
In ancient times, when there was a war, momentum seemed to be an ethereal thing, but it often controlled the situation of battle.
Originally, the Yuan army was in great momentum, and the Montenegrin army fell into the disadvantage, but now as soon as Zhang Yan appeared, the situation was completely reversed, and those Montenegrin soldiers were like chicken blood, and they were about to eat the officers and soldiers on the opposite side alive.
"Otherwise, we will withdraw our troops for the time being and fight again tomorrow."
A lieutenant suggested.
Theoretically, this is a good way, for the time being, to avoid its edge, if Zhang Yan's health is not good, with his physical condition, I am afraid that he will not be able to appear again tomorrow.
If it is good, the morale of the Montenegrin army will not be so high tomorrow, after all, one blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, today Zhang Yan appeared when the soldiers of the Montenegrin army were desperate, it played a role in the fierce medicine, but tomorrow the natural effect will be weakened a lot.
If it was really before the troops were dispatched, Yan Liang would definitely follow this advice without hesitation, but now both sides are about to line up. Once Yuan's army retreats, the victorious Montenegrin army will definitely pursue at the tail end, and it will easily lead to a crushing defeat at that time.
Fu Zhi pondered for a while and said, "Dispatch all the parts, Zhang Yan on the upper floor of the city is fake, and the anti-thieves of the Montenegrin Army are hungry and weak, and they are thin and small, how can they be the opponents of my Han officers and soldiers?" ”
The herald quickly passed on the words of the frustrated professor, and as for how useful it could be, the frustration himself had no bottom, but it was better than nothing.
After the herald left, Yan Liang turned to look at the captains on the corner tower, and said with a solemn face, "Everyone, get ready to fight." ”
All the people agreed with great satisfaction, bowed, and left the corner, and returned to their own phalanx.
As soon as Zhang He returned to the bank, Jiang Yiqu asked, "Junyi, what's the matter with Zhang Yan?" ”
Zhang He waved his hand, "Leave him alone, you just need to fight now." ”
Jiang Yiqu understood that Zhang He didn't want to say more, and he didn't continue to ask.
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 tribes, most of them have learned martial arts since childhood, and most of them are no strangers to horsemanship.
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!" ”
"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.