[Chapter 20: Li Lingbei, Luntai Bloody Battle (II)]
PS: Finally caught up with the time, went to sleep and went to the bird...... Good night everyone!
The line of Moshan-Shanshan-Luntai-Wusu, including Ganzhou and Suzhou, is what the Han people before the Holy Ancestor called the Hexi Corridor. And Uman, Yanqi, and Cheshi are surrounded by Shanshan-Luntai.
If Shanshan-Luntai is the center, Uman is in the southwest of Shanshan, the Cheshi is due north, and Yanqi is in the southeast. It is an irregular quadrilateral. It can be regarded as the existence of horns for each other.
These four cities form the defense chain of the Western Regions west of Moshan, once one point is breached, the other three points will be in danger - Xinzhou has no walls, and one or two small castles in Luntai and Cheshi are not enough to bear the responsibility of the base point of the entire defense line.
Yigong can't see through the cards of the Yue's people, so he can only defend first, let the Yue's people play the cards first, and then make a preemptive move. Fortunately, he has a trap guard, as long as there is this unparalleled siege army in the world, the Han army will never lose in a head-to-head duel. As long as you don't lose in the head-to-head duel, the victory will still be on the side of Dahan in the end!
That's what Yigong thinks. He was waiting for the Yueshi to play his cards.
And the Yue's people didn't let Yigong wait for a long time, and on the third day when Yigong's Daxu appeared in Luntai City, the Yue's people finally moved.
The first to be dispatched were two battalions of the Ili Legion, who wore Han-style armor, but with white cloth wrapped around their helmets and waists - Shang Yue, a native of the Yue clan, who was beautiful in white. Two battalions, totaling more than 1,600 people, lined up in a dense formation and flocked to the largest stone bridge on the Dylan River - Luntai Bridge!
The 1st Brigade of the 1st Town of the Front Division of the 1st Army Corps of Ganzhou was responsible for the defense of the bridge. Brigade Commander Yao Ping participated in the last battle of Luntai City, and in the face of the Yueshi people who came like white waves, his eyes showed a chilling coldness.
"Let Yao Zhongxiao's 'filial piety' word camp go up, and if he can't hold it, let him jump the Dylan River by himself, the province will be embarrassed!" Yao Ping said coldly.
"Whoa."
The herald's banner waved, and Yao Zhongxiao, who was originally nesting behind the fortifications on the east side of Dylan Bridge, jumped out. He took out the war knife at his waist and shouted: "The brigade commander has an order, my filial piety battalion will attack first, follow me!" ”
The full name of the battalion of the word 'filial piety' should be: the first battalion of the first brigade of the first town of the former division of the first army of Ganzhou. However, just as Shen Yun's troops will be called "Red Fox", each unit will have its own other name in its own system. Otherwise, when the order was given by the superiors, after such a long preparation was read, the enemy would probably rush to the nose.
The camp of the word "filial piety" is not because Yao Zhongxiao's name has this word, but because their parts are all named after the Confucian "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith". He just happened to run into this battalion.
However, Yao Zhongxiao still has an identity, that is, the younger brother of the brigade commander Yao Ping. After the defeat of the second class army in Ganzhou in the last battle of Luntaicheng. There are many children in Ganzhou who serve in the army, and it is not uncommon for two brothers to serve in the army together.
The charge is like a charge, the battalion of "filial piety" has 800 people, there is no cavalry, all of them are foot soldiers wearing mound and mountain armor.
Whether it is the Yue army or the Han army. There seems to be no intention of sending long-range archers and cavalry to help in the battle. Just like that, the two foot soldiers rushed towards the Dylan Bridge.
It looks a little weird, but it's actually easy to understand. This is just the first battle. Both sides are just testing the strength of their opponents. Although before this "weapon fight" of 2,000 people. The scouts on both sides have been fighting back and forth for several miles in the land around Luntai, but this time today, it was a real head-to-head confrontation!
"Brigade commander, why don't you let the 'loyalty' battalion then sweep the formation with bows and crossbows?" There is a staff officer to Yao Pingdao.
Yao Ping looked at the Yue clan's camp intently, shook his head and said, "No need. The Yueshi people also want to try our color, and this is the first battle. Even if you lose, you can't weaken the morale of our Han army! ”
"Then if you don't let the battalion with the word 'benevolence' follow, there are two battalions on the opposite side!" The staff officer continued to advise.
Yao Ping raised his hand, stopped the staff officer's words, and stared at the front of the "filial piety" battalion.
Dylan Bridge is forty-five steps long from east to west. Fifteen steps wide. The Han army took advantage of the proximity, and the battalion of the word "filial piety" was the first to rush to the bridge deck, but it was limited to the width of the bridge deck, and there were only ten people in a row, that is, two soldiers in the front. At this time, the Yueshi people were still about fifty steps away from the Dylan Bridge.
"Hurry up, follow behind, rush across the bridge and spread out to the wings!" Yao Zhongxiao followed in the middle and shouted. At this moment, he felt as if he was in a hurry, and the head of his battalion was now tied to the bridge, and the collision surface with the enemy was too narrow to give full play to the collective advantage.
According to the usual drills, there should be archers or crossbowmen shooting at the enemy's position in the back at this moment, so that they can calmly cross the river and fight the enemy in formation. But Yao Zhongxiao turned around, but he didn't see his own archers at all.
"Battalion commander, we can't rush, we won't have time to set up a formation when we rush over!" Someone behind him grabbed Yao Zhongxiao.
When Yao Zhongxiao heard that it was this reason, he immediately shouted: "The whole army stops, the turtle marches in formation, get up!" ”
Each Han soldier will have a semicircular shield, a war knife, and small objects such as daggers and military stabs that he can use. As soon as Yao Zhongxiao shouted, the Han army stopped, and raised the left hand holding the round shield above his head, and the soldiers in the front row raised their war knives flat, ready to chop and stab at any time, while the soldiers in the back lowered the war knives in their right hands and held them back, and at the same time pulled the belt of the front row of robes and marched forward.
This is the Turtle Formation, the purpose of which is to advance against the opposing archers' projectiles, while maintaining the overall strength - the army is a group of brave creatures, and only when they are together can they exert their strength.
This movement is very neat in normal training, and it can often be completed between two breaths. But I don't know if it was because of the first battle, or because there were too many recruits in the filial piety battalion, after five breaths, the turtle line formation slowly took shape. At this time, the Yueshi people roared and bumped into it......
"Bang Bang Bang" ......
"Poof" ......
The painful impact of flesh and the sound of blood flowing after the blade entered the body suddenly sounded. At this moment, the entire vicinity of Dylan Bridge was silent.
Whether it was the Yue clan or the Han army, all the soldiers in the front row gritted their teeth and didn't say a word, just stubbornly pressed their shields against the enemy's body, and then stabbed, stabbed, and slashed at the opposite side mechanically with their flat knives......
It's just a few breaths of time, but it feels like a century!
I don't know if it was the Han army or the Yue army, and let out a heart-stopping scream. "Ahh
"Kill !!"
"Hack him!"
"Resist, front row!"
"Don't mess ......"
"Kill!"
……
Yao Ping, who was staring at the battlefield and couldn't even stop breathing, came back to his senses after hearing the familiar shouts, let out a long breath, and then said to the staff officer with a cold gaze: "Order, the Zhongzi battalion takes fifteen steps forward and shoots at the enemy's position!" ”
"Whoa."
Blood, blood. Bright red blood gushed down the Dylan Bridgehead and slid down the dirt into the Dylan River.
Although the Yue's army was outnumbered, the Han army could only stick to the bridgehead because it could not be deployed on both flanks of the bridgehead as early as possible, and the narrow terrain allowed the slightly smaller Han army to take advantage.
"Xuanwu soars into the sky. Rise! After Yao Zhongxiao found that there were no archers from the Yue clan on the other side to follow, he immediately ordered the turtle formation to be lifted. At the same time, it was decided to change the formation.
Xuanwu Soaring is a variation of the Turtle Array. It is to scatter at the same time, no longer rush to kill based on the front row, so that the contact surface of the fight is relaxed.
But in this cramped place, his order was almost ineffective.
After the initial fight, the two Han soldiers at the front were already lying in a pool of blood, and were even trampled under the feet of the Yue's people. However, in an instant, the front row of the Yueshi people was also cut off, and they were also trampled by the military boots of the Han army.
At this time, the Han army's Zhongzi battalion took advantage of the location. The Yue's archers arrived in one step, and the arrows thrown from them suddenly crossed the sky and landed in the back row of the Yue's army, and the screams were even more piercing.
After the Han army fired the third round of arrows, the Yue's archers were late, but at this moment, the Han army had already rushed across the Dylan Bridge like a tidal wave that broke the embankment, and completely rushed into the Yue's array - from this point of view, the Yue's group combat ability could indeed not be compared with the Han army.
After another battle, the soldiers of the two battalions of the Yue clan were finally defeated and began to retreat slowly.
After the Yue's archers also fired three rounds of arrows, Yao Ping immediately ordered a retreat, not to dwell too much, just hold the Dylan Bridge.
On the wall of Luntai Castle, Yigong has been paying close attention to the battle of Dylan Bridge with a "clairvoyant". Seeing the Han army and the Yue's army retreating, he put down his "clairvoyance", took a deep breath and said, "Let Yao Ping report the casualties." Then he turned his head and said to a man beside him who was not tall but very stocky: "Zhijie, what do you think?" ”
This man named "Zhijie" was wearing a round light armor, a head shorter than Yigong, but he was very energetic, and the shoulder armor in the shape of a beast made his broad arms look very eye-catching. And the sword badge on his shoulder armor is also very conspicuous.
His name is Cheng Chu, the word knows the festival, and he is one of the nine guards of the Han Yulin, and the commander of the trap guards. This time, the trap guard was transferred back to Moshan by Yigong, and he was a little dissatisfied, so he brought a group of men and horses to find Yigong, and Yigong directly asked him to go to the city to watch the battle together.
Seeing Yigong asking, Cheng Chu frowned and said in a rough voice: "Marshal, my old Cheng is a rough man who doesn't understand so many twists and turns, but just now, if my trap guard is at Dylan Bridge, I don't need a battalion of soldiers, I can defeat the Yue's people with a company of traps!" ”
Yigong smiled and did not answer.
Not long after, Yao Ping personally came to report the battle situation. The battle just now was less than a quarter of an hour before and after, but it was no less tragic than the other battles. Especially at the moment of contact, the suffocating dullness is almost making people vomit blood.
In less than a quarter of an hour of fighting, the Han army lost eleven people on the spot, two of whom were killed by arrows, 27 were seriously wounded, and 40 were lightly wounded. In this way, half of the company is gone. Of the two soldiers in the first platoon of the Han army, only one survived with serious injuries and lost an arm.
And the Yue's people didn't get a good deal, because the geographical advantage and the Zhongzi battalion arrived first, beheading the seventy-first level of the Yue's rebels, and the seriously injured are not easy to calculate, but it will not be less than a hundred. There are even more minor injuries.
After hearing this, Yigong nodded: "It's all my Han warriors, and the war dead will draw up a death list and report it to the military department as soon as possible, and they will be rewarded heavily." The seriously injured were transferred back to Moshan for recuperation. Minor injuries should also be treated by a medical officer as soon as possible. ”
Yao sang in parallel.
In just a few words, hundreds of lives were lost. This is war! War in the age of cold weapons!
After saying these things, Yigong suddenly said to Yao Ping: "Major Yao, Cheng Zhijie said that he only needed one company to solve the battle, what do you think?" ”
Yao Ping froze and looked up at Cheng Chu. With resentment on his face. Cheng Chu was also stunned, what's the situation? It stands to reason that how can a leader create contradictions among his subordinates in front of him?
No, at the beginning of the process, he was also an upright man, and he said it, straightened his thick neck, and said in a hard voice: "Yes, that's what I Lao Cheng said." Major Yao, your soldiers are still too tender, and it took five breaths for a turtle formation to sort out, if you are facing my trap guard. It has long been defeated. But many of you are new recruits, and five breaths are not bad. ”
Cheng Chu was not a tendon to the end, and finally turned around. Yao Ping frowned and bowed to give a military salute. I didn't defend it. He has a lot of recruits under his command, and he himself has just been promoted from the rank of commander to brigade commander. It is also true that it took five breaths to complete the turtle walking array. Cheng Chu finally said that, which was to help him explain. Overall, Yao Ping can't refute anything.
Moreover, Cheng Chu is the commander of the trap guard, although the rank is only colonel, but after all, he is the master of the army. And he, Yao Ping, is just a brigade commander, the level is too different, although he is not a subordinate to each other, but he can't tear his face.
Yigong laughed. patted Yao Ping on the shoulder and said, "Major Yao, don't take it to heart, Cheng Zhijie is also telling the truth." As he spoke, he turned his head to Cheng Chu and said, "Zhijie, are you interested in going down to guide Major Yao's soldiers?" ”
"Huh?" Cheng Chu didn't understand for a while, but he showed joy in an instant, and said in a loud voice: "Marshal, did you agree to let me fall into the guard?" ”
Yigong shook his head: "No, your trap guard still has to be in Moshan." Let's tell the truth, Ben Shuai still can't figure out the thoughts of the Yue people, so he has to keep the sharp knife of the trap guard. However, the Yue's people are too arrogant, take two battalions of soldiers to test, hum, come and don't be rude, he dares to come and I dare to go, this is my Han martial arts! An hour later, you led a brigade to cooperate with Major Yao, and called me across the Dylan Bridge, and robbed him of a few Yue's big noodles back, okay? ”
"Hahahaha, that's great. I, Lao Cheng, am not afraid of anything except that I am afraid that I will not be able to go into battle! Cheng Chu slapped his thigh and grinned, "Marshal just wait for the good news!" So saying, he hurried down the fortress wall and gathered his troops.
Yao Ping was still stunned on the side, until Yigong said to him: "Zhongping, you can go down too, I will let Situ Gong send two brigades to sweep the formation for you, this battle is to take the initiative, be sure to give me momentum." ”
Yao Ping, the word Zhongping. Hearing Yigong call him, Yao Ping suddenly felt excited. How could anyone at the level of an ordinary duke ever call him that? Yao Ping took a step back, solemnly saluted Yigong, and then strode away.
After Yao Ping left, Wu Chuan and Du Wei stepped forward. Wu Chuan said: "Your Highness, why did you let Cheng Zhijie go?" Didn't you say that you should put the trap guard last? ”
Yigong didn't have the ease and gentleness just now, but frowned and said in a low voice: "I don't know what the Yue people want to do, so I have to let the trap guard teach them a lesson." It is said that the Ili Legion is the Rice Plant. Abbas is quite weak, of course the persimmon picks up the soft pinch, so let's bully him first! Try his condition. ”
Du Wei didn't ask the reason like Wu Chuan, but directly suggested: "Your Highness, should you let the middle division also launch a feint attack to contain the donation army on the other side?" ”
Yigong thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes." Let Situ Gong arrange it. In addition, he told Situ Gong that although the main attack was to trap the first guard, the former division could not take it lightly and was ready to take the whole army at any time in case of emergency. If the Ili Legion is really vulnerable," at the end of the sentence, Yigong pinched his hand into the void and said in a condensed voice: "Then take advantage of the situation to break it." ”
"Whoa." Wu Chuan and Du Wei said in unison.
……
Just at this moment, the first battle of the Nine Guards of the Feather Forest appeared here. The big action that the Yueshi people never showed made Yigong a little irritable. Since this is the case, let the trap guard teach the Yue's people a good lesson, what is called the Siege Army.
For the trap guard, Yigong is still very confident. Of course, the frontal defeat of the Ili army was just Yigong's wishful thinking of the battle, and he knew that it was impossible. Unless it's an all-out attack, it's not a skirmish, and it conflicts with the original defensive plan. Once a full-scale attack is launched, it will inevitably require the three corps of the Western Xinjiang Front to be dispatched at the same time, and the war surface is not something that this small Dylan Bridge can carry. Yigong just wants to use the trap guard to fight a dozen to see if he can beat the bottom of the Yue clan.
However, after two hours, Yigong really regretted it. He never expected that the Ili Army in front of him would be so vulnerable, and the reaction of the follow-up front division of the Ganzhou First Army was more than a beat slower, and it couldn't keep up with the attack speed of the trapping guards, which made Yigong miss a great opportunity. At that moment, Yigong's intestines were all green with regret, and the gap between the combat effectiveness of the Han Second Legion and the First Legion was undoubtedly evident in this battle.
However, everything can only be imagined.
Of course, that's all for later.
Right now, no one could have predicted what would happen in the next quarter of an hour. Yigong couldn't have imagined that he would be able to do so. Abbas couldn't think of it.
At this moment, Yu Mo. Abbas was in the tent and roared at the heralds from the tent of the royal legion: "Still let me go? Where did I get so many soldiers to consume with the Han Chinese? Go back and tell Sacrum that I have no soldiers, or give me another division, otherwise I won't send troops to fight again. ”
The herald said tremblingly: "Your Royal Highness the Second Prince, the eldest prince means that you can contain and test the strength of the Han people, and the main attack will be completed by Prince Qin Xi......"
With a "bang", Yu Mo directly threw a silver wine jug on the herald, his thin body was trembling, and his emaciated cheeks flushed with anger: "Go back and tell Sacrum for me, no way." How many times has he lied to me? Every time I say I'm a feint, but every time it's my people who die...... The main attack, the main attack, the main fart. Go back, and bring back my words word for word. ”
The herald knew that if he stayed any longer, it was not impossible for the weak but very hateful second prince to cut him directly, and when the time came, don't expect the eldest prince to turn his face against his younger brother for the sake of his little herald. So he crawled out of the tent. (To be continued......)