Chapter Seventy-Seven: Ambush Doumi Village
Han Wang and Xiong Da's first meeting point was Doumi Village, which was actually a small village near Liangzi Village, sandwiched between two mountains in a narrow river valley. About thirty or forty households, due to the narrow terrain, the entry and exit of the large group of men and horses will be relatively slow, but it is conducive to the rapid advance and retreat of the six groups, and they can still run towards the mountains as a last resort, and the enemy army will not be able to give full play to the advantages even if there are cavalry.
Now, followed by a thousand chasing soldiers, Han Wang decided to use this terrain to hit Shi Cheng hard, this guy owes clean up, what is not good, he wants to be a traitor! What labor and management hate most is a traitor, who is subservile to foreigners, and fierce to his own people like jackals, tigers and leopards, and cannot let him go.
Han Wang told Yang Keshi his thoughts and wanted to hear his advice, Yang Keshi heard that there were more than 100 people preparing to ambush in Dumi Village, and he couldn't help but feel refreshed, this is a good man! After suffering from the bird anger for so many days, I can finally vent it well.
He looked at the topographic map to point out how Han Wang was arranged, the trap barricades with the frontal resistance fortifications, the arrangement of the archers on both wings, the flammable materials that were sealed, the rolling wood and stones on the uphill slope, and the location of the mobile cavalry, all of which were explained in detail one by one. Han Wang also accepted it humbly, after all, he was not familiar with the battle in the cold weapon era, and finally simply asked Yang Keshi to rush to Doumi Village in advance to deploy and command, and when he arrived at the ambush point, he led Xu Qing and Li Qing to form a mobile team of more than a dozen people to wait for the sniping of the opponent's important targets.
Shi Cheng followed Han Wang's traces all the way to the outskirts of Doumi Village, and saw that twenty or thirty people not far in front of him had hid in the valley, thinking that if they were allowed to run to the mountains again, it would be much more troublesome to search. So he asked the front team to speed up and rush in and stick to the Nanchao team.
Han Wang deliberately waited for Shi Cheng and them for a while before pretending to retreat into the valley in a panic, just to lure the first wave of four hundred people in and then close the door and beat the dogs. Seeing the four hundred cavalry shouting behind them catching up, he smiled coldly. According to the planned route, lead them to the trap area, and take the first step up the slope on the left, at this moment the evening glow fills the entire sky, and the sun is really like blood. When the four hundred pursuers gathered at the bottom of the slope, Han Wang's right arm was raised high and slashed down.
The forty selected archers who stood up on the opposite hillside, each soldier of the Sixth Battalion shot an arrow a hundred times a day, and always trained some archers who were gifted in archery. The forty men lined up in two columns, one column retreated and opened its bow and arrows after shooting, and the latter column stepped forward to fire, and so on, the arrows were like a rain curtain that continued endlessly, and the lethality was also the greatest.
Han Wang asked the four or five Orions beside him to snipe and kill the big and small leaders with the troops at designated points, so that their command system would fail and speed up the collapse. Li Qing is really powerful, basically two arrows must hit one arrow, and the commander of the Han army who led the team below naturally became the key target, and the two rounds of arrows were hit and dismounted.
In the face of this storm of arrows, the Han army finally reacted, although there was no order, but the various squads spontaneously attacked under the leadership of the captain. The cavalry on the inside attacked desperately on both sides of the slope, and the cavalry on the back began to reinforce them, in their eyes, there were only thirty cavalry and forty archers on Han Wang's side, as long as the cavalry rushed up the slope, after all, he had four hundred people, and he still won steadily.
The idea was correct, but the hillside was densely covered with various traps and tripwires, and the cavalry who were about to rush up the hill were trapped halfway up the hill, and the few who were lucky enough to rush up were quickly shot down and dismounted.
Han Wang raised his arm again and waved it down again, and more than a dozen large hay balls appeared on the slopes on both sides, and after they were ignited, they rolled down one after another, rushing towards the Han army. For a time, the flames soared into the sky, due to the narrow terrain, the cavalry hedgehogs gathered, and there was no way to avoid it, the offensive of the Han army suddenly became chaotic, many cavalry and horses were ignited by the fireball, scattered and fled, and more cavalry were ignited in a larger range, and the fire was great, even redder than the sunset in the sky.
At this moment, more than 100 cavalry of the Han army in the rear realized that they might have been ambushed, and if they didn't retreat, they would probably be burned here, so they whistled and retreated out of the valley. It's a pity that it's easy to get in and hard to get out, Xiong Da has led twenty sword and shield men and twenty pikemen to seal the narrowest part of the valley. Originally, the cavalry was sure to fight the infantry, but because of the terrain, the cavalry had no way to speed up, and could only move at a high speed in the rugged and soft river valley, especially the narrow road surface could only run four horses in parallel, and this opening was already solid.
The combination of sword and shield soldiers and pikemen became the nemesis of the cavalry, the shield block, the knife hand cut the horse's legs, the pikemen kept stabbing the cavalry horses in the front, killing dozens of Han troops who tried to break through, and finally no one had the luxury of rushing out of the river valley. Han Wang and Yang Keshi had already led their cavalry to a condescending position, eyeing each other. The archers who caught up were still firing deadly arrows at the crowded places, and the Han cavalry was drastically reduced, and the four hundred men were reduced by more than half in less than a quarter of an hour, and only a hundred or so horses remained. Many people are still insisting, hoping that Shi Cheng will come to the rescue as soon as possible.
Finally, some Han soldiers couldn't hold on and dropped their swords and guns, turned over and dismounted and knelt on the ground and surrendered, and some Han troops hid behind obstacles, Han Wang immediately dispatched cavalry to dive, plus sword and shield soldiers and pikemen gradually advanced, and worked together to strangle the recalcitrant enemy. When Han Wang cut off the last head of the Han army, at the mouth of the valley, Shi Cheng's successors had just entered the valley.
Seeing the tragic situation in the valley, Shi Cheng knew that all the 400 cavalry had been annihilated, and he trembled in distress. After thinking about it and weighing the pros and cons, he can't take risks. The four hundred cavalry is gone, as long as there is money, it is a big deal to recruit him, and it will be easy for me to recruit him for 1,2000. Shi Cheng ordered everyone to retreat slowly and retreated, and a cheer suddenly resounded in the valley, "The Khitan dog has escaped!" We've won! ”
Han Wang was about to pursue, but Yang Keshi grabbed him and pointed at God, meaning that it was almost night, and it was easy to be ambushed by someone if he pursued rashly. At this time, there was only a touch of colorful glow left in the sky, and he was about to enter the embrace of the night.
The ambush battle in Doumi Village was successfully completed, and after counting, seven people were killed on their own side (mainly when they dived down on both sides at the last moment, some of the recruits were not skilled in skills and tactics, and the Han army was fighting to the death, so it was inevitable), more than 20 people were injured, but nearly 200 Han troops were killed, 100 wounded, and more than 100 surrendered, and the results were more brilliant than Xiaozhuang River. But it's a pity that Shi Cheng saw the opportunity quickly and didn't seize it, which is a little regrettable.
Han Wang plans to turn these captives into his own soldiers as much as possible through education and recruitment, these are all veterans, and they are also descendants of the Han family, since they are willing to lay down their weapons, or give them a way to live, maybe they can still make contributions in the future. Regarding the captivity, Han Wang roughly told Xu Qing that if these people were willing to join the Sixth Union Barracks, they would give him an independent capital, give a part to Xiong Da, and transfer some of the old Sixth Unions from Xiong Da to be the core backbone.
Xu Qing had a flexible brain, so he cooperated with Han Wang, pretending to execute the captive, Xu Qing begged the knife to keep people and give the captive a favor. In fact, in this era, being a soldier and fighting a war is just to have enough to eat, as long as you are given food, it doesn't matter if you are a Song person or a Liao person, as for the wounded, Han Wang gives them their own choice, those who are willing to go back are not forced to stay, and those who are willing to stay are brought back to Fengzhuang for treatment. In this way, Han Wang accepted more than sixty veterans.