Chapter 31: Battlefield Surprise
Liu Futong's right-hand man Guan Duo, known as Mr. Guan in the rivers and lakes, led the most elite 10,000 cavalry of the Yingzhou Red Turban Army and rushed into the defeated army of the Red Horse Army.
After Liu Futong's Yingzhou Red Turban Army was heavily damaged, he recuperated in Yingzhou, and the arrival of Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, rekindled the fighting spirit of the Yingzhou Red Turban Army.
Helplessly, the grain and grass were scarce, and he was short of grain for the Northern Expedition, and got a letter from Hao 13 promising 50,000 stone of military rations, and sent his cronies Guan Duo to Shouzhou to transport grain.
Guan Duo, as the cadre of the Red Turban Army, has fought against the army of the imperial court many times, and has been defeated by the grassland cavalry several times, so when he came to the battlefield for some time, in the face of the elite of the Red Horse Detective, he did not dare to act rashly, until he encountered the Red Horse Detective rout and retreated, which can be described as a rare fighter that has not been encountered in a hundred years, how can he easily let it go.
Plainly, Guan Duo's 10,000 cavalry can't even beat the 3,000 cavalry of the Red Horse Exploration Army, and today the Guan Duo cavalry who are waiting for work, facing the defeated Red Horse Exploration Army, is like a wolf entering a flock of sheep, invincible, Rao is the Red Horse Exploration Army Cavalry is brave in the world, and it is already the end of the strong crossbow.
The cavalry of the Red Horse Tan Army, which was also 2,000 smaller, saw that the cavalry was killed in the oblique stab, and hurriedly pressed the cavalry, wanting to resist the momentum of the impact of Guan Duo's cavalry, so as to facilitate the retreating infantry to form a phalanx.
Helplessly, the Red Horse Detective was exhausted several times, and he couldn't stand the overwhelming number of Guan Duo people, so he waited for work, and was defeated in one face, leaving the infantry behind, and taking care of himself.
Guan Duo drove the army in hot pursuit, seeing one, cutting one, seeing two, killing a pair, not taking prisoners, and killing them all, which is his general style, and also the style of many Red Turban Army generals, and it has become the iron law of the Yingzhou Red Turban Army that has been slaughtered six times. (Note 1)
The words are divided into two ends, and it is said that Hao 13 took a group of men and horses, put down the drawbridge, rushed through the moat, and rushed through the heavily armed positions of the Red Horse Exploration Army, and did not even encounter the injuries of a single Red Horse Exploration Army, and even the shadow of the chasing Red Turban Army Guan Duo cavalry could not be seen.
The Shouzhou Red Turban Army is all infantry, suppressed in the city for a suffocating beating, has long been holding back the fire in the belly, and now out of the city to chase the enemy, than the pet dog that was released from the house for ten days, and did not care whether the shadow of the enemy could be seen, shook off his footsteps, shouted and killed, and rushed forward desperately.
Especially Wu Liuqi, the left army of the Shouzhou Red Turban Army, he was responsible for defending the front, this defense, counting the heavy casualties of his brothers, he had already killed the red eyes, and thought that his armor was too bulky, so he removed the armor on his upper body, and rushed up with a steel knife shirtless, and the whole mountain was like a tiger.
But the enemy has long been gone, and even if you hold back the anger in your belly, it will be Zhang Fei throwing chicken feathers -- you can't do it.
"Oops! General Wu, General Wu, stay, stay! After some fighting, Hao 13 ran more than a mile at a speed of 100 meters in a sprint, and he supported the catapult with his hand, panting.
"No matter how strong you are, a two-legged man can still outrun a four-legged horse!"
Wu Liuqi sighed indignantly, slammed the steel knife into the ground, and said indignantly: "The kid surnamed Guan is cheap for nothing", and after thinking about it, there was just a word "Guan" on the banner, and he didn't know it: "Who is that kid?" How can you snatch the meat from our bowl? ”
"Fortunately, Lao Wu, there are no cavalry, can we clean the battlefield so calmly? I'm afraid that if the Sutai cavalry returns to the horse pistol, we won't be able to go back! Hao Thirteen said.
The cavalry has an absolute advantage over the infantry, Wu Liuqi didn't know, he just held back the fire in his belly, and he didn't kill happily, so he could only scratch his head stupidly: "I think the cavalry of Sutai can't carry our pear flower gun!" ”
The pear blossom gun, theoretically speaking, has a certain restraint effect on the cavalry, although the cavalry men and horses have armor, but the eyes of the people and horses are exposed, and they can't stand the spray of the pear blossom.
The pear flower spear did not go head-to-head with the Red Horse Tan cavalry, which was a pity for Hao Shisan, who knows if it was a rescue.
Then again, the cavalry of the Red Horse Detective is not stupid, they will not stupidly hit the black medicine spray barrel of your pear flower gun formation, they will take advantage of the high mobility of the cavalry, control the safe distance, and move to throw bows and arrows into the formation, the pear flower gun is infantry, and it can't catch up with the cavalry, so it can only be beaten passively, and when the cartridge on your pear flower gun is exhausted, two thousand against two hundred, it's not the same as beating your son.
The battlefield outside Shouzhou City is a mess, floating corpses are all over the field, the ground is full of discarded armor and weapons, the ownerless war horses are wandering on the battlefield, and a large number of catapults, bed crossbows, artillery, ladders, siege towers and other heavy weapons are placed on the position.
Hao Shisan commanded everyone in an orderly manner, scattered in every corner of the battlefield, everyone's face was filled with the joy of victory, gathered the war horses, picked up the armor, and pushed the catapult and other heavy weapons into the city.
The scattered war horses are enough to equip a few hundred-man teams, the armor and ice blades all over the ground, countless, and most importantly, the heavy weapons used in the siege, all of which have been captured, and the Red Turban Army in Shouzhou has increased its combat effectiveness a lot!
Fu Youde was happy to kill today, happy in his heart, worried about the huge siege tower, the siege tower was higher than the city gate, and he couldn't enter the city at all: "Lord Governor, the siege tower can't enter the city, let's destroy him outside the city!" so as not to be used by other Yuan troops besieging the city! ”
The three-zhang high siege tower, Hao 13 has already had a plan, in the west of Shouzhou City, there is an abandoned military camp, which is used by the garrison in the early Yuan Dynasty, which has long been dilapidated, the barracks have collapsed, and the walled wall has long been gone.
"We directly push the siege tower to the abandoned barracks in the west of the city, use it as a fortress on the periphery of the barracks, and then use the wooden stake fence to link the western barracks and re-establish the western barracks, and when the army grows stronger, it can be directly stationed in the barracks outside the city!" Hao Thirteen commanded.
He stepped forward and tried it, but the siege tower was too tall for a person to push at all: "Venerable, come and push the siege tower!" ”
Hao Shisan personally went into battle, shouted the trumpet with more than thirty people, and slowly moved westward with the siege tower.
At this moment, a subtle change suddenly occurred on the battlefield.
I saw seven or eight hundred Red Horse Exploration Army infantry, suddenly appeared on the battlefield, all in disarray, with bloody armor, embarrassed appearances, and crazy, rushing towards the crowd of people who were cleaning the battlefield casually!
Outside Shouzhou City, one or two thousand Red Turban Army was scattered in all corners of the battlefield, and some of them transported the spoils of war into the city but did not come out, and the Red Turban Army had no time to set up a formation, and seven or eight hundred defeated troops seemed to be able to sweep the Red Turban Army outside Shouzhou City.
Hao Shisanyi slapped his head and secretly screamed badly. He was too excited to send out a sentry on the periphery of the battlefield, and he didn't expect that under the pursuit of Guan Duo's cavalry, there would be this group of enemy soldiers returning to the battlefield.
The Red Turban Army outside the city was too scattered to be organized into an effective resistance formation in a short period of time, and the scattered Red Turban Army would be crushed by the sudden appearance of organized routs.
Things had changed so suddenly, and at this critical juncture, it was impossible to put up an effective resistance to the organization. Seeing the victory in hand, it was buried in vain.
"Brothers! Follow me! Hao 13 had no choice but to touch the saber on his waist, and one person took the lead, commanding more than 30 people pushing the siege tower, and rushed towards the rout.
The thin monkey Zhang Thirty-one was commanding more than a dozen guards of the Shouzhou Governor's Mansion to push a catapult, and suddenly found the changes on the battlefield, and he didn't care whether dozens of people could defeat the rout of hundreds of people, and shouted: "Protect the boss!" With a dozen people, he rushed to Hao Shisan's team!
Hao 13 led more than 30 people, facing the rout overhead, but stopped in front of the formation, his men were too small, and they were not in formation, and in front of the enemy with absolute numerical superiority, there was no chance of victory.
The rout army seemed to be intimidated by Hao Shisan's mighty formation, and less than three meters in front of the two armies, they also stopped, putting on an offensive posture, but they were still a little timid, and they didn't know what they were waiting for.
The tacit understanding between the two teams was surprisingly quiet, and a depressing atmosphere arose spontaneously, Hao Shisan could even hear the sound of his heavy breathing, as well as the sound of his own "dong dong" heartbeat.
The soldiers of the two armies stood facing each other, and they could clearly see each other's faces, like bows and arrows ready to attack, a bloody battle was imminent, as if a straw and a slight change could break the peace in front of them, and they were still living people at the moment, as if they would be headless souls in a moment.
Hao 13 is not cowardly, he knows that the brothers who have found changes on the battlefield are gradually moving closer to him, and the people behind him are slowly increasing, and the battle is one minute later, the better the chance of winning for his side, once the formation of more than thirty people is disrupted, it is difficult for the Red Turban Army outside the city to organize into a formation.
Monkey Zhang Thirty-one arrived with more than a dozen people, but he didn't understand the situation, and he silently docked in his camp at a loss, and the stragglers who slowly approached didn't know what Hao Thirteen was waiting for, and he didn't know what he was waiting for, after all, the changes on the battlefield were too sudden.
No one knows, why did so many routs suddenly appear on the battlefield, such a sudden encounter, the Red Turban Army in Shouzhou did not have the slightest ideological preparation, and was at an absolute disadvantage, such a situation contrast,
A small detail can make the difference between victory and defeat in a war. I'm afraid that Hao Shisan at this time, because he didn't release the sentinel, even regretted his intestines.
Note 1: Not only was the Yingzhou Red Turban Army accustomed to killing enemy troops, but even Zhu Yuanzhang's general Chang Yuchun had a record of killing prisoners many times, and Chang Yuchun even killed Chen Youliang's 3,000 Han prisoners.