Chapter Twenty-Three: The Edge of the Flowing Water (Part II)

Leng Bud sent a messenger, and then he had the idea of holding on. www.biquge.info Although he had gathered the troops from the south at this moment, counting more than 4,000 people, he really didn't have the confidence to continue to wait stupidly at the front of this cavalry team after seeing Zhao Yun's fierce cavalry shooting. In the end, he chose to retreat, retreating behind the fire. Hide yourself and your men until reinforcements come from Deng Xian's side. At this moment, he can take care of himself, but as for the ambush soldiers he arranged in the north, he has no choice but to abandon them "temporarily".

Zhao Yun didn't hold him to death, because he also had his own things to do: rescue Huang Zhong's men and horses, and find those soldiers who might still be alive in the fire. A lot of troublesome things need to be solved by Zhao Yun one by one. Of course, there is also the help of Huang Zhong, a veteran. After being busy, Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong counted the situation on their side a little, but there were some heavy losses: Huang Zhong's 10,000 infantry troops lost more than half, and together with the people rescued in the fire later, there were only 4,000 hanging zeros, just enough for the number of a battalion. Zhao Yun's men and horses did not suffer any losses, except for some soldiers who were burned by the fire while rushing into the fire to save people, his equipment, morale, and the integrity of the establishment were the highest. It's just that in the face of the situation in front of him, he didn't get happy because of it - both he and Huang Zhong knew that the crisis under the current army had not been resolved, and even Leng Bud on the other side had withdrawn.

"It's a terrible situation. We have only about 9,000 people on our side. And the one who fought with us was only the cold bud of the other side, only 10,000 horses. And according to the lord's plan, your team plus my team should have at least 20,000 people in the area. Now, although our army has defeated Leng Bao's 10,000 people, there are still Deng Xian's 10,000 people who have not been defeated. This is very detrimental to the lord's plan. Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong met together, and under the light of the fire that had not been extinguished in the cold bud camp, they quietly discussed the battle situation in front of them.

"Well, it's all my old fault. If it weren't for me, how could the army have been corrupted here? Maybe I should kill myself to thank my lord. Huang Zhong said bitterly with tears in his eyes.

"No, it's right or wrong. The lord's military council has its own judgment, how can General Huang abandon himself lightly? What's more, the general is the lord's general, and the lord will not let the general die no matter what. Needless to say, there is no need to say anything like taking responsibility. You and I should think about the current situation. Zhao Yun quickly stopped Huang Zhong's self-blame, and turned his mind directly to the matter: "How to fight next".

Facing Zhao Yun's positive color, Huang Zhong was slightly stunned, as if he saw Zhao Yun for the first time, he carefully talked to him a lot, and then said: "Zilong's truth, I have seen it." Yes, my sins will be held accountable by Ariji. You and I soldiers are supposed to come to war, and we really can't use our brains to think about more things until the battle is over. Thank you Zilong for your teaching. As he spoke, he stood up, bowed to Zhao Yun solemnly, and said, "Today's matter, I have already made a bit of a mess. How to deal with the current situation, I still want to hear Zilong's thoughts first. ”

"General Huang is polite." Zhao Yun was humble for a while, and didn't continue to take Qiao, so he said, "So I'll talk about my shallow opinion first." At present, there are three parts of the men and horses that we can use: one is the 4,000 infantry army of the old general, the other is the 5,000 cavalry that I have brought here now, and the 5,000 infantry commanded by my adjutant general Xing Daorong. Although Xing Daorong's soldiers and horses have not yet arrived at this moment, he is not far from us, and compared to the lord's men and horses, his troops are the reinforcements we can rely on the most. Therefore, I wanted General Huang to lead 4,000 infantry to defend here, while my cavalry wandered around waiting for an opportunity to attack, and sent someone to report to Xing Daorong, so that he could press with greater momentum and make the enemy feel afraid, so that the tide of the battle could be reversed against us in one fell swoop. Of course, it is also necessary for us to ignite the signal and inform the lord so that he can understand that the current situation has changed. Zhao Yun said eloquently, but he took into account all the aspects that he wanted to carry out on his side in one breath. He is a person who respects the old man very much, although he himself knows that at this moment he has decided here, Huang Zhong will not say anything, but after he finished this series of things, he still bowed his hand to Huang Zhong very respectfully, and asked politely: "General Huang, what do you think of this matter?" ”

"This thing?" Huang Zhong groaned slightly, nodded and said, "It's feasible." That's what Zilong did. But you'll have to find a way to get me some bows and arrows. Damn, in that ambush just now, I, a bow and arrow teacher, was actually caused a lot of losses by their bastard bows and arrows. When I think about it, I get angry. Now that I have time, I want to take care of them first. Huang Zhong pleaded with Zhao Yun.

"Hmm!" Zhao Yun nodded slightly, "Since the old general also cares about this, then I will let my subordinates give you a thousand angle bows." Although it is not comparable to the infantry bow in terms of range, it can only be used for now. Besides, you can also get some equipment from these enemy captives, plus what you have left, how can you have 2,000 archers, which seems to be enough. Zhao Yun estimated and said.

"Thank you Zilong for that." Huang Zhong bowed his hand to thank Zhao Yun.

At that moment, the two of them had decided on a plan, so they divided their troops. Huang Zhong dug a trench in place and took up a defensive posture. And Zhao Yun went north without knowing what to do. Of course, they did not forget to turn off the signal flare that Li Sheng handed over to them when they were about to divide the troops, so that the red light turned into dazzling, so that everyone could see the truth.

Li Sheng, who was about to bypass Deng Xian's camp and copy Liu Xuan's camp, suddenly looked at the red star in the sky and stopped. He looked at the bright red light and was silent for a long time, until it slowly disappeared, and then Li Sheng said to the military advisor Fa Zheng beside him with a bitter face: "Xiaozhi, it seems that we can't go to Liu Xuan's side." There was trouble on both Master's and Zilong's side, and we had to follow our original goal to complete this task. ”

"There's no way around that. Our original plan was based on the fact that our army's combat strength far surpassed that of Liu Zhang's army under the same circumstances. Such an estimate is a bit risky, at least not realistic. Is it precisely because of this that the lord has left a most basic goal? Looking at Li Sheng's bitter face, Fa Zheng replied with a faint smile.

"Hehe, that's right." Li Sheng nodded, "I have a lot of confidence in my own soldiers, and I also know that my generals are not bad. The only thing that might have ruined me was that I underestimated these generals in Yizhou. I'm underestimating them. As he spoke, he looked at Fazheng with a little complaint: "Filial piety, it's true." You're also from Yizhou. You should also remind me of what these people are capable of. How can you say nothing? Like today, Liu Bi, Leng Bao and Deng Xian are annoyed by me. ”

"Lord, do you blame me for this?" Fa Zheng felt aggrieved: "I told you in private that Liu Xuan, Leng Bao, and Deng Xian are all famous generals in Yizhou." But the lord himself doesn't care much, and says that Liu Bi, Leng Bao, and Deng Xian are only famous generals in Yizhou, and they are not as good as famous generals like Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun. Alas, my lord, you yourself are so confident, what can I say? What's more, although your layout is a little risky, it is not impossible to succeed, not to mention that you have added such a remedy after the plan. ”

"That being said, ......" Li Sheng wanted to argue something more, but he finally gave up after thinking about it. After all, things have come to this point, as the parties involved, it is really useless to pursue these who are right and who is wrong at this moment, and at the moment, Li Sheng, like Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong, are concerned about the future battle situation and how they should act.

Li Sheng quickly ordered the team to stop and be on guard, and then scattered the spies in his hands to learn about the situation in Deng Xianzhai, about five miles in front of him.

Perhaps because of the influence of Zhuge Liang, when Li Sheng formulated the battle plan, he also had a multi-plan layout of "this will not work, just like that", such a layout has not shown its superiority when encountering a weaker opponent, but at the moment, such a layout has given Li Sheng the opportunity to turn the battle situation.

All the cavalry was transferred to Zhao Yun by Li Sheng, even his own personal guards, not to mention the cavalry used for reconnaissance. At present, although Li Sheng also has the power of reconnaissance in his hands, those are all foot soldiers, foot soldiers composed of Shanyue people. The speed at which they used to deliver messages was faster than that of ordinary infantry scouts, but it was still incomparable to cavalry. Li Sheng, who had no choice, could only wait anxiously for the spies to come back. He attaches great importance to intelligence, and before there is definite information, he would rather waste time than dare to act rashly and recklessly.

Waiting is annoying, and Li Sheng has known this for a long time. When he saw that he had sent someone to finally run back, and let him breathe a sigh of relief, he was surprised to find that the clothes on his back were completely wet, and the cold was sticking to his body, which made people feel very uncomfortable. But he didn't have the time to deal with the discomfort. The anxiety in his heart had already made him ask the moment they arrived, "What is the situation?" ”

"Deng Xian has already sent troops to fight with the men and horses of General Zhao and General Huang. General Huang mainly lived with infantry inside, and General Zhao lived mainly with cavalry, forming a stalemate with Deng Xian, Leng Bao and others. At the moment, the two sides will not be able to tell the winner for a while. In response to the lord's eager inquiry, the spies who had just returned didn't even have time to catch their breath, so they quickly replied. He also knew that the lord took this news very seriously.

"What about Zhao Yun's infantry?" Li Sheng asked again. He knew that Zhao Yun's soldiers and horses were said to be 10,000, but only 5,000 were really controlled by Zhao Yun. These 5,000 were cavalry, which were directly commanded by Zhao Yun and rushed to the battlefield, and the infantry outside of this cavalry was commanded by Xing Daorong, the deputy general who had just been transferred to Zhao Yun. In the situation reported by the spies just now, only Zhao Yun's cavalry and Huang Zhong's infantry have been tied with Leng Bao, Deng Xian and others, so what about Zhao Yun's infantry, that is, Xing Daorong's department? This point was not mentioned, so Li Sheng asked with concern. He knew that in terms of the current situation, if he wanted to achieve the most basic purpose of the plan he had predetermined, he had to maintain, and even defeat the two teams of Leng Bao and Deng Xian. Now their side is in a stalemate, simply put, it is a draw, and reinforcements are needed to change the tide of the war. And his side is carrying out the surprise attack plan of the partial division, and it is impossible to give Zhao Yun much help, so the only one who can help Zhao Yun is the five thousand infantry left by Zhao Yun himself. "They can change the situation on the battlefield." Li Sheng really felt this.

"Colonel Xing's men are already behind Deng Xian's formation. They are well concealed, and they can launch a fatal blow to Deng Xian at any time. The spy replied quickly. When they were sent out, Li Sheng gave them the task of probing the situation of friend and foe on the entire battlefield. Although they were not specifically asked to pay attention to Xing Daorong's men and horses, they were very conscientious and still had a clear understanding of the location of Xing Daorong's troops and the tactical form of their troops.

"What about the situation on the Deng Xianying side? Did he come out of the nest? Li Sheng nodded and asked again.

"Exactly." The spy replied affirmatively: "The camp of Deng Xian is already dark and oppressive at the moment, and there is no one moving. Judging from the enemies encountered by Zhao Yun, Deng Xian seems to have moved in a hurry. The team that directly fought with Zhao Yun was no less than 10,000 people. ”

"It seems that Deng Xian has honestly carried out the task assigned to him by Liu Xian." Li Sheng smiled faintly, his originally grim expression suddenly relaxed, and he seemed to remember that the spy in front of him was tired at this moment, so he relieved: "You go down to rest first." However, it is indeed not easy for you to find out the situation in this radius of ten miles so clearly in half an hour. Rest well. As he spoke, Li Sheng gently patted the spy on the shoulder, asking people to arrange him down.

Seeing the spies leave like this, Li Sheng turned his head and smiled at Fa Zheng: "Xiaozhi, it seems that God is still on our side." It seems feasible to attack Deng Xianbu's camp! ”

"Then we have to hurry." Fa Zheng nodded slightly: "We must get there before Liu Xuan's men and horses go to Deng Xianzhai to support." "As for what the idea of Liu Bi, Deng Xian, and Leng Bao is to stand separately, Li Sheng and Fa Zheng have their own understanding. They affirmed that Liu Xuan was using each other's horns and rescuing each other to stop their attack on any of their three camps. Therefore, when he didn't know that Liu Bi actually fought to let Leng Bao and Deng Xian save each other, and Liu Bi himself aimed at launching the rescue when the two of them found an attack at the same time, Fa Zheng was really a little worried that Liu Bi's army would not enter Deng Xian's camp long ago than his side. "That's not going to work. We must quicken our march. He suggested to Li Sheng.

"Well, that's true." Fa Zheng said something, Li Sheng was also worried, so naturally he agreed without saying a word, and then ordered: "The whole army marches forward quickly." ”

"Oh!" The soldiers who received the people's power woke up from their rest, stood up straight, took a step forward, and gradually increased their speed. "Brush ...... Brush...... Brush! "Running towards the northwest direction where Deng Xian's camp is located." The goal of the battle has changed, and he must quickly insert himself into Deng Xian's camp. The latest order, when most of them didn't understand the "why", was told to them by their superiors. Naturally, they don't have any opinions on this, and as small soldiers, all they can do now is Nono.

Seeing the rapid progress of the team, a happy smile flashed on Li Sheng's face. He estimated the current speed of his army, and recalled the distance from here to Deng Xian's camp, but he finally settled down. He knew that his team would definitely be able to reach Deng Xian's camp before Liu Xian's army came from. He was not worried about this, he was concerned about one thing at the moment, that is, how the war between Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and Leng Bao and Deng Xian was going. Although the spies in front said that they were in a stalemate battle, no one knew who had the upper hand in this battle and what the losses between the enemy and the enemy were. Everything was wrapped in a cloud of fog, which made Li Sheng's heart itch, and he was always eager to know the news.

In fact, at this time, with the delay of time, the consolidation of Huang Zhong's position and the repeated raids of Zhao Yun's cavalry, Deng Xian's men and horses had fallen into a very dangerous situation. In fact, the spies who did not have a very deep and detailed observation of the situation of Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun fighting with Deng Xian and Leng Bud had already misestimated - Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun were not in a stalemate battle with Deng Xian and Leng Bao, but with Huang Zhong as the origin and Zhao Yun as the ambush force, the two parties cooperated with each other to incarnate a huge grinding in the city, and defeated Leng Bao and Deng Xian's men and horses little by little.

Most of Huang Zhong's remaining troops were men and horses from the Bow and Arrow Battalion. These people were all brought out by Huang Zhong himself, and there was nothing to say about the training in the bow and arrow. The reason why the losses were so heavy under Leng Bao's attack at the beginning was that he encountered a surprise attack and was completely unprepared, and secondly, the defense of this bow and arrow was always very low when it was not in formation. It can be said that Leng Bud was completely caught off guard by Huang Zhongjun when he was most unintentionally weak, and the accidental factor accounted for a large part. When Huang Zhong got the support and cooperation of Zhao Yun, reorganized his team, and quickly dug a simple trench half a man high, the combat effectiveness cultivated by these archers under his command in the cruel training they received back then was completely presented in front of Leng Bao and Deng Xian.

The offensive began after the rounds of the two armies of Leng Bao and Deng Xian. Before this, Leng Bud had also tentatively approached Huang Zhong's department, who was working hard, but under Zhao Yun's intimidation, Leng Bud did not do anything that was easy to cause misunderstanding, and Zhao Yun did not have the spare time to find him trouble. The whole battlefield is very strange, showing a rare peaceful scene in a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. The people on both sides were face to face, but they glared at each other without committing any crimes.

Deng Xian's reinforcements came quickly, and only three quarters of an hour after Leng Bao's personal guards sent out to ask for help, his troops arrived at the scene out of breath. I have to say that the cavalry under Zhao Yun is very good at hunting the "messenger", although the number of people sent by Leng Bao is enough for nearly 100 people to go out to rescue, but there are so many personal guards, under the hunting of the two thousand light cavalry divided by Zhao Yun, only one person can reach Deng Xian's camp. And this person was still seriously injured. He didn't bring too much news to Deng Xian, but after saying the words: "Lord Leng Bao resisted the attack of the thief army, and asked General Deng to rescue ...... quickly", his head tilted and he couldn't wake up again.

Leng Baozhi's personal guard said well and his eventual death made Deng Xian clearly feel the strength of the enemy and the critical situation. Although the relationship between Leng Bao and Deng Xian is not very good, their loyalty to Liu Zhang is beyond doubt. It is precisely because of this loyalty that Deng Xian is so desperate to rescue Leng Bao. He came all the way on a hurried march, and when he saw that the front of Leng Bao's camp was full of Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun's men and horses, and there was no trace of Leng Bao and his team at all, he, who had always been cautious and always thought about things in the worst direction, mistakenly thought that Leng Bud had been pressed into a desperate situation on the spot. For this very critical situation, Deng Xian, who was so anxious, didn't care that his team had fallen into a relatively tired situation, so he shouted, desperately, and launched an attack on Huang Zhong's position without forming a formation.

The shouts were launched at the same time as the soldiers charged forward. In fact, this is a very wasteful behavior, but they seem to be unable to bear it when they are very tired. Because they feel that if they don't shout like this, they don't have the strength to run and fight—perhaps this is an instinctive act under the influence of a fierce atmosphere.

Bows and arrows are the main means of attack used by Huang Zhongbu at the moment. In order to make this method more effective, Huang Zhong asked Zhao Yun to help light a large pile of bonfires in the front and back directions that he needed to guard against. At the darkest moment when the sun is about to rise, the light is quite insufficient, and if there is not such a sufficient light, the hit rate of long-range attacks will definitely be greatly reduced, and there is no way to do it. Of course, Huang Zhong knew that this would expose himself. But if it is exposed, it will be exposed, Huang Zhong didn't want to ambush the other party, he just wanted to fight with the other party.

"Leave them here and let Zhao Yun's cavalry attack them." This is the final decision made by Huang Zhong and Zhao Yun after repeated discussions.

Arrows rained down. The archers trained by Huang Zhong are not covered, especially in this chaos, most of these archers who can survive in this chaos are very experienced veterans, although the number is only two thousand, and the range of bows and arrows is not uniform, but under Huang Zhong's front and back, these two thousand archers, to be precise, the fifteen hundred archers facing this Deng Xian's side, the combat power that burst out can be compared with the three thousand archers of the ordinary army.

Shooting with one bow and two arrows in a row is the most basic skill of the archers under Huang Zhong. In fact, in Huang Zhongjun, it was not uncommon for archers to master three-arrow shots, and there were many people who could master four-arrow or five-arrow shots. This superb combat skill actually caused Huang Zhong to attack Deng Xian's army that rushed to him, and the arrows flew all over the sky, and four or five thousand arrow feathers would fall in the opponent's formation in a wave, which made Deng Xian lose more than 2,000 soldiers at once.

"How many enemies are there?" When he encountered the first wave of attacks, Deng Xian realized that something was wrong. There are too many arrows coming from the sky. Although he said that he was a swarm of swarms charging in a large-scale dense formation, so that the effect of the opponent's attack was fully utilized, the large number of archers on the other side was also one of the reasons why he suffered such a large damage. "The enemy has at least four thousand archers, and according to this ratio, the frontal enemy is at least ten thousand or more." Deng Xian thought about it. This is the answer he came up with based on the military configuration of his own Shu army. He didn't know the composition of Li Sheng's army, and he didn't understand that Li Sheng's army also had an integrated bow and arrow battalion, and a spear battalion that was almost a single means of attack, so naturally he couldn't guess that Huang Zhong on the opposite side did not have as many troops as he imagined.

Since there are so many enemies, does it mean that you have captured their main force? As it stands, that seems to be the case. In fact, Liu Bi's Yizhou army also collected information on Li Shengjun, and they naturally knew that Li Shengjun's army was only 30,000 at the moment.

The total number of troops is 30,000, so except for the madmen, probably no one will send out all their troops and horses in one go during the raid. In other words, their maximum number of soldiers and horses is only 20,000. Well, that's pretty regular. After all, what is shown in front of you is only a part of the enemy army. Although the firelight on the opposite side flashed so much that his eyes were spent, he Deng Xian could still see that the people on the opposite side were arranging the battlefield in a two-sided formation. They used one centaur to stop themselves, and the other to deal with the remnants of Cold Bud. Judging by the principle of reciprocity, the other party's soldiers and horses here are 10,000, and the number of men and horses used to deal with Leng Bao's army on the other side is about this number.

"This means that all the enemy's soldiers and horses are here. As long as you can defeat the enemy in front of you, you will definitely win the battle? Deng Xian thought about it with a somewhat excited look. Although he had lost 2,000 soldiers in the charge just now, such losses did not prevent him from judging that victory was on his own. Because, he thinks that he still has a killer trick that he hasn't used.

"Let Lange & Söhne give it to me. Tell them that these Qiang embryos are now the time for them to serve, and as long as they work hard, Lao Tzu will give them all grain and grass. Deng Xian said viciously. The secret weapon in his hand is actually such a force composed of about 3,000 Qiang people.

Yizhou is adjacent to the Qiang land, and its borders and counties were inhabited by a large number of Qiang people in the Liu Yan era. Liu Yan regarded it as a trouble, and tried to use various means to weaken the strength of the Qiang people, one of the most important of which was to send troops to reduce the number of soldiers and plunder the Qiang people as slaves. Now, more than 20 years have passed. Since Liu Zhang's accession to the throne, the policy towards the Qiang people has been changed, and he is cowardly by nature and does not have the iron fist of his father, and has achieved the point of allowing the Qiang people to occupy their own prefectures and counties, not to mention abolishing the act of plundering the Qiang people? Of course, this is not to say that there are no Qiang people under Liu Zhang. The martial arts of the Qiang people are valued by Liu Zhang's father, Liu Yan. He repeatedly plundered the Qiang people, that is, in order to recruit their young and strong soldiers. In the Liu Yan era, the Qiang army composed of Qiang people even had 10,000 in Yizhou, but now there are naturally not so many, in addition to Liu Zhang's son Liu Dun, there are 2,000 Qiang soldiers in his hands, and there are 3,000 Qiang soldiers in the hands of Deng Xian. These are all veterans left over from the Liu Yan era, and they are all about forty years old, which is the age of being strong and experienced. In Deng Xian's army, which has always been good at defense, they are the only force in Deng Xian's hands that can be used to attack.

The soldiers who had charged at first were ordered to retreat to the rear of the formation, and the thousands of Qiang men came to the front with wooden faces. They were dressed in leather armor and armed with single knives, without any other burdens. After the flag in Deng Xian's hand waved gently, they buzzed and scattered the formation, each of them was a few feet away, and they spread their legs and rushed towards Huang Zhong's position. These veterans were not fools, and after seeing Huang Zhongjun's attack just now, they quickly judged that Huang Zhongjun's archers were killing and wounding the enemy with dense arrow formations. They do this by firing a large number of arrows in the smallest possible area to inflict heavy damage on enemies within that range. This kind of attack is very effective for a dense infantry formation, but it is very effective for a straggler formation like the Xiang Qiang. From 30 zhang to 20 zhang, Huang Zhongjun's arrows shot five or six rounds, but the number of these Qiang soldiers was less than 300. These veterans are slippery like loaches, and they are very good at dodging.

"It's really strong." Seeing them dodge their arrows so skillfully, and then rush in front of him so quickly, Huang Zhong had to admire them from the bottom of his heart, and once again picked up the big knife in his hand, leading his own soldiers to fight with them. This time he was a little relieved, not as tragic as when he fought against Leng Bao. Because he knew that Zhao Yun's five thousand cavalry were waiting not far from him, as long as his side could drag the enemy and mobilize all their soldiers and horses. Then Zhao Yun's side can easily launch an attack, so as to wipe out these people.

"Cooperation, the key to this is the cooperation of both sides." Huang Zhong thought so. Although this is not easy to complete in the current melee environment, Huang Zhong is still very confident in it. Because before the war, he had already agreed with Zhao Yun on such a contact method.

"Come on, you have to fight! I'll fight you! Huang Zhong roared angrily, swung the big knife in his hand hard, and cut the two Qiang soldiers who were approaching him into two pieces in a row. As a general, his strength is not comparable to that of these brave soldiers. [bookid=3676858,bookname="The Legend of the Otherworld"]