Chapter 127: Cavalry Duel
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"When will General Gao lead me to make meritorious contributions?" Yang Ling saw that Old Man Huang was pestle and didn't speak, so he hurriedly changed the topic.
"First of all, there must be soldiers, you can't rely on my thousands of soldiers to attack Zheng Bao, right?" Gao Shun said.
"The soldier is good. Our family went out to make sure there were enough people. "Yang Ling wants to implement the matter as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.
"Zheng Bao claims to have 20,000 troops, so can we gather 20,000 troops?" Some children of the family gradually reacted.
Gao Shun snorted coldly: "Of course you can't rely on your group of soldiers to kill the enemy." My soldiers are one to ten, no problem. I got your favor, but I just took them to make up the numbers, to make a strong reputation, and to give you some credit by the way. If you really want them to kill the enemy, just don't be scared to pee your pants. β
"Well, how about we grit our teeth and gather eight thousand troops?" Yang Ling turned around and discussed with the next group in the court: "In this way, there are only five or six hundred people in each family, which is not too much." β
"If it's a strong man, of course it's fine. The question is at least give them weapons! Old man Huang said in a low voice, give hundreds of weapons, then how many weapons can they use in their family? Old man Huang didn't want to stay for a long time, so he went back first to inform the family elders to discuss countermeasures, and said with an excuse: "I'm old and frail, so I'll go to the toilet first, forgive me... I'll go back in a moment and prepare the soldiers. β
Li Damu outside the Yang Ling court gave a look, and Li Damu sent someone to quietly follow Old Man Huang.
Gao Shun listened, nodded and said, "But you have to pay for the grain and grass." β
"No problem." Yang Ling agreed, very refreshing. began to retreat and talk to the next family, discussing how much supplies each family would provide.
"Oh no, no. An old man fell into a dung pit and drowned...", a soldier's exclamation was heard in the lobby.
Chen Gong led people to the latrine, and the old man Huang, who had gone out under the pretext of going out before, was covered in dung and stood on the ground. Yang Ling pretended to check: "You people, you don't cultivate the government when you are officials." The planks you stepped on are all rotten, and you won't replace them, if Mr. Chen and General Gao have any accidents, how many heads can you have to fall off..."
Chen Gong said: "Send Mr. Huang's body back, and when the lord comes to Hefei in the future, he will bury Mr. Huang." By the way, Brother Yang Xiandi sent someone to tell the Huang family about Mr. Huang's promise to support the soldiers just now, and asked them to send the soldiers as soon as possible. β
After sending off the children of the family, Yang Ling returned to the county government and emphasized to Chen Gong again: "Mr. Gongtai, don't break your word." The 5,000 gold and 2,000 acres of fertile land promised to me must be counted. β
"My father-in-law is full of words, I guess the virtuous brother has heard of Guangling Chen Ang. As long as it is sincere, my lord will definitely reuse the virtuous brother, and after defeating Chaohu Zheng Bao, I will recommend the virtuous brother to be the Chaohu Taishou. β
"Is that true?" Yang Ling asked happily.
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Lu Bu set off lightly and went to Tuzhong to block Ji Ling's army from moving south. The road on the west bank of the Huai River is uneven, and there are swamps everywhere, so the war horse cannot be ridden at all, and it has to be carefully led, so as not to fall into the quagmire.
When he arrived at the official road near Tuzhong, the situation improved slightly, at least he could get on the horse and trot, it was impossible to let go of the horse speed, but fortunately, he was leading the archers, and he didn't need the war horse to rush into battle, otherwise he would simply give Ji Ling a head, as long as he ran faster than the enemy.
Lu Bu cautiously came to Tuzhong, and Ji Ling in the city closed the city gate.
Although Lu Bu did not play the banner, he was still recognized by Ji Ling when he came to the city. When Yuanmen shot a halberd to relieve Liu Bei's siege, Ji Ling and Lu Bu had close contact, and they recognized Lu Bu riding a red rabbit horse at a glance.
"Push Sun Guan up, once Lu Bu attacks the city, kill Sun Guan to sacrifice the flag." Ji Ling saw that it was Lu Bu who personally attacked, and he didn't know how many troops he brought, so he asked Sun Guan to threaten Lu Bu.
"Lu Bu is here? What to do? Let's open the door and surrender, shall we? Lei Xu and the other lords saw that Lu Bu had just arrived in the city, and they were so frightened that they were about to open the door and surrender.
Ji Ling said angrily: "You have been worshiping Yuan Gong for a long time, now that the enemy army has just arrived, I don't want to retreat from the enemy, but I am bent on surrendering, and if I dare to surrender, I will definitely not be spared!" β
"Lu Bu is brave, once the city falls, we will die and have no place to be buried." Lei Xu also had heavy troops in his hands, and he was too afraid of Lu Bu, but ignored Ji Ling's warning.
"The last general is willing to lead an army out of the city to capture Lu Bu alive." Wu Ji, the general of the main battle faction, saw that the main faction cowered and did not dare to meet the enemy, and strongly supported Ji Ling.
Lei Xu saw that many people in front of the tent were unwilling to surrender, and they didn't dare to force him too quickly, once he was in a hurry, it was very likely that the main battle faction would directly raise a knife to overturn him, since someone was sent to death, Lei Xu suddenly changed his usual style, and said in support: "Since you want to fight, you can take advantage of Lu Bu's unstable foothold to annihilate him in one fell swoop, or maybe defend it." β
Lei Xu wanted to use Lu Bu's hand to kill the main battle faction one by one, so that the main surrender faction could slowly gain the upper hand.
Ji Ling won a few days ago, morale was booming, and saw that Lu Bu's army only had a thousand cavalry, and the scouts did not find that there were traces of the march of the army behind Lu Bu, he saw that Lu Bu's cavalry was grotesquely equipped, and the cavalry did not carry heavy weapons that were conducive to cavalry charge, but everyone was armed with curved bows. felt that this was a good time to defeat LΓΌ Bu: "General Wu led the cavalry out of the city to meet the battle, and must break LΓΌ Bu's army and raise the majesty of our army." β
Ji Ling handed over all the 3,000 cavalry under his command to Wu Ji, intending to kill Lu Bu with three times the number of strong, he didn't believe that Lu Bu was beaten with iron, as long as Lu Bu was defeated again this time, and a city guarded by 30,000 troops was still breached, he Ji Ling could directly swing his sword and kill himself. As long as Lu Bu is defeated again, the main surrender faction will slowly change its attitude to support him to meet the enemy, and Tu Zhong will be impregnable.
Wu Ji opened the city gate, took the lead in killing and rushing out with a sword and prancing horse, and behind him a column of Yuan Shu's army lined up to follow him, and the three thousand people quickly lined up a large formation as soon as they drove out of the city.
Ji Ling carried a three-pointed knife to watch the battle on the city tower, always watching the battlefield, once Wu Ji suffered a loss, he would go out of the city to rescue.
Lu Bu didn't expect Ji Ling to actually send out the precious cavalry, how many cavalry could Yuan Shu have? I'm afraid that this cavalry in front of me is the only one in Yuan Shu. As soon as Yuan Shu's army left the city, he could quickly line up the battle array, and Yuan Shu was not useless as the legend suggested, at least there was an elite cavalry.
"Tempting the enemy." Lu Bu gave the order. Now you can't scare Yuan Shujun away, once you release arrows on horseback, this cavalry is very likely to turn around and run to the city after being beaten passively. As long as this cavalry is annihilated, Tu Zhong will lose his mobile troops and become a passive defense. Lu Bu's archers will not be in much danger, and they can still run if they can't fight.
Wu Ji lined up the cavalry closely, and seeing that Lu Bu's cavalry was sparse, he was full of confidence in hedging with Lu Bu's cavalry. How could the sparse cavalry battle formation rush past the tightly packed cavalry battle array.
"Charge!" Wu Ji didn't talk either, he was worried that once he talked, Lu Bu asked to fight in front of the battle, and directly waved his army to kill.
Lu Bu silently calculated the distance between the two armies, and when there was a difference of two hundred paces, he shouted: "Release the arrow." β
A thousand arrows shot out from afar, falling lightly between the two armies, only a very small number of losses did not enter the cavalry formation, and the loss of strength could not shoot people at all, but caused the Ji Ling cavalry to laugh for a while.
"Shoot again." There was still one hundred and fifty miles away, and Lu Bu shouted again. The archers and horses were all standing on the ground, not yet running, and shooting arrows on their horses was almost as far as the infantry could shoot an arrow.
"Hahaha..."Wu Ji laughed happily: "I have heard for a long time that Lu Bu is brave and extraordinary, and it is rumored that it is better to meet... Ha ha... Hah..."
Countless soldiers also laughed, and Lu Bu's cavalry failed to hit his own arrows twice in a row, which made Ji Ling's cavalry laugh at the same time, and their morale rose rapidly. Wu Ji saw that Lu Bu's cavalry was a hundred paces away and had not yet charged, and the cavalry relied on this charging spirit, and the cavalry that did not charge was worse than the infantry: "Breaking the enemy is in front of you, rush!" β
Lu Bu seemed to be frightened, and shouted in a panic: "Withdraw... Fall back... Retreat quickly. β
Lu Bu moved quickly, and took the lead in turning the horse's head towards his own phalanx, and Ji Ling, who was on the city tower, saw that Lu Bu was panicked and personally beat the war drums.
Wei Yue and Xiao Xiong on both wings had already received the order to lure the enemy, and at the same time ran away in two opposite directions with their headquarters men. Lu Bu's cavalry formation was already sparse, and everyone turned around and ran, which made it even more chaotic. The two wings were diagonally opposite, and it looked like a thousand cavalry were scattered all over the east gate.
Ji Lingjiu and Lu Bu fought and knew that Lu Bu was good at rushing into battle, why didn't they break up without contact? Worried about fraud, I want to withdraw my troops.
Mei Gan, the general of the main battle faction, stepped forward and persuaded: "Our army scouts around did not find that Lu Bu had a large army ambush outside, this cavalry must be the vanguard force, once it is annihilated, Lu Bu will lose his mobile troops, our cavalry harasses his grain road, Lu Bu can not supply, and he will definitely be defeated." β
"Good! Xun Gan lined up a battle formation, and once General Wu Ji was in an unfavorable situation, he went out of the city to respond. Ji Ling laughed as he spoke, Lu Bu was chased and killed like a landslide at this time, it would be good to be able to escape under the pursuit of his own cavalry, how could he turn the tide of the battle? Ji Ling laughed, and the generals on the city tower who had been overwhelmed by Lu Buwei's name for days also laughed relaxedly.
One chased and one fled, all of them were cavalry, the speed was very fast, and it didn't take long for the generals watching the battle on the city tower to gradually become unclear, and they could only see the sky full of dust. Seeing that his cavalry was gradually disappearing into the distance, Ji Ling suddenly lost his mind and shouted like crazy: "Mingjin withdraws his troops..."
"What do you mean, General?" Therefore, all of them were so frightened that Ji Ling suddenly panicked.
Ji Ling pointed his finger at his own cavalry chasing Lu Bu's army and said: "Look, Lu Bu's cavalry on both wings does not seem to be in a battle formation, and it has not broken out, but has a faint tendency to surround our army. What kind of person is Lu Bu, it is impossible for him to come far away and run away without handing over a single soldier, so it must be Lu Bu who lured the enemy and wanted to annihilate our cavalry. β
"Lu Bu wants to annihilate our army's three thousand well-equipped cavalry with a thousand cavalry with bows and arrows?" Don't say that Mei Qian doesn't believe it, even Lei Xu and other generals who have been descending don't believe it.
Ji Lingli overrode public opinion and insisted on Mingjin withdrawing troops.
Bell... The sound of gold broke through the battlefield.