44. The First Battle
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There was no difficulty in taking down Yangyi, which was defended by hundreds of county soldiers, and there was not even a battle, and when it was found that the army of Black Mountain thieves was pressing, the county magistrate and big households of Yangyi all chose to flee from the city instead of holding on.
The magistrate of Yangyi County escaped to tell him, and there were scouts who reported back, and the grain army stopped when it reached Jinyang, and all the people's vehicles hid in the city, and only Zhang Yi led the officers and soldiers to meet them.
There is no benefit in fighting Zhang Yi in advance, if the Black Mountain thieves are defeated, naturally everything will be suspended, if the officers and soldiers are defeated, the grain delivery team is timid, and they will not go out of the city to the south again, no matter whether they win or lose, it will be difficult to get this food. After the scouts reported the movements of the officers and soldiers, Zhang Yan quickly retreated to Zhan County with the Black Mountain thieves, and if Zhang Yi led the troops to chase after him, he could also retreat to Taihang.
The officers and soldiers all have mounts, and the marching speed is much faster, but there are many thieves in Montenegro, and there are no less than 200,000 in Taihang, Zhang Yi is also afraid of being too far away, once he is entangled by Zhang Yan, it will be dangerous for the Montenegrin thieves to divide the division to take Jinyang, and they dare not approach too closely.
You come and I try twice, it has become a stalemate for a while, Zhang Yan put on a posture of not seeing grain and grass and never meeting with him, the officials and guards of the Beijing division are still waiting to receive rice, Zhang Yi did not dare to delay too much, so he had to lead the grain team on the road.
In fact, he has fought several times in the past, with 25,000 officers and soldiers in hand, and a small half of them are soldiers, Zhang Yi is confident that even if the Black Mountain thieves come with 100,000 people, he can kill and retreat, but it takes more effort to protect the grain and grass.
Sure enough, out of Jin Yang just after Yangyi, the scouts returned, the black mountain thieves chased from behind, the officers and soldiers were busy waiting in formation, the people were led by the county officials, and they were also armed and vigilant, in Zhang Yi's heart, these 40,000 people were his back-up hands in case of emergency, and most of the transferred were farmers who had served in the military.
This time, Zhang Yan did not back down, and after forming a good position far away, 70,000 black mountain thieves slowly pressed on.
The autumn wind kills, the fallen leaves are sluggish, everything in the wilderness is avoided, and a big war is about to break out.
When the two armies were only a stone's throw away, Zhang Yanfang stopped a little ahead, and just stabilized his position, the officers and soldiers flew out on horseback, galloped back and forth twice with a long knife in their hands, and showed off their might for a while, Fang shouted loudly: "A certain Yangju of the West River, who dares to fight?" ”
This is the so-called invitation to battle before the battle, in later generations, such behavior may be regarded as ridiculous, can be killed by random arrows, but at this time, the brave provoke and fight alone, the most easy to make people's blood boil, but it is the only way to boost morale, pay attention to etiquette, gentlemanly demeanor of this era people, will never give the order to shoot.
Seeing Yang Ju coming out of the battle, the officers and soldiers immediately cheered together, and the left beard of the Black Mountain thieves couldn't hold it back, and flew out to meet the enemy.
"Left mustache Hachiya!"
This general, known as the left bearded Zhangba, has a hedgehog-like stiff hair on the left face, but the right face is smooth and beardless, which is very weird, so he got this number, but he has always been brave, and the prancing horse went straight to Yang Ju, but the two together, stabbed his shoulder and arm, and saw that Yang Ju was injured and fled back, and the black mountain thieves all laughed loudly.
After winning the jackpot, Zhang Yan was naturally overjoyed, waved the flag, and shouted: "The front army meets the enemy!" ”
There were horsemen flying horses to give orders, and after a while, more than 10,000 people in the front army of the Black Mountain thieves broke away from their own positions and rushed towards the formation of officers and soldiers.
The front army of more than 10,000 people is under the unified command of Liu Shi, but it is composed of three groups of thieves, and Yu Geng's department is among them, but there are many elite people, but the black mountain thieves are mixed, and they have not been organized on weekdays, and the formation is messy when they rush up, and there are eighteen kinds of weapons in the team.
More than 10,000 of the former army of the Black Mountain thieves ran to usher, and heavy wheezing sounded all over the field, and the new soldiers who had just experienced the battle formation could not help but sweat their palms. Most of the officers and soldiers were cavalry, only the shield soldiers and archers dismounted from the horse array, where they were willing to easily let these black mountain thieves press, and when the team entered the firing range, the other Sima in the formation pulled the red neck and roared: "Shoot!" Raise your shield! ”
The three rows of archers had already pulled the sharp weapons in their hands, the bow was like a full moon, and when they heard the order, they all let go of the strings, and the rain of arrows in the sky suddenly pierced the sky, and fell straight into the charging array of the bandits.
There were more officers and soldiers than the bandits, and they were much more neat, and this wave of arrows took the lives of at least seven or eight hundred black mountain thieves, and some of them were directly shot through the ground and let out a wail before death, but no one was willing to pay attention to it, and all of them ran directly past him and rushed forward.
At the first time that their archers shot out, the front-end sword and shield soldiers raised the shield wall, and the sparse arrows from the opposite side did not hurt much, and at the same time as the second round of arrows shot by the archers, the five thousand heavily armored knights on the two wings of the back row had already instigated their horses to rush towards the Black Mountain bandits.
"The left flank quickly responds to the center!" The various departments of the Montenegrin thieves are too mixed, and they can't form pure troops like officers and soldiers, but they are simply divided into five armies, before and after, left and right, and the five armies, if you want to subdivide them, that is, the headquarters of the commanders of each canal, with more than 10,000 people in the front army, there is only a share of slaughter when they come forward, and seeing the heavy armored cavalry of the official army, Zhang Yan hurriedly commanded the left wing to step forward to respond.
There are also more than 10,000 people on the left wing, which is due to the poisonous leadership. Deng Ji's department was among them, the two armies of 100,000 people fighting, these more than 60 soldiers in it could not even set off a wave, a careless will have the disaster of destruction, he must not carefully control the speed of the horse, never cross the foot soldiers to step forward.
In order to prevent being misidentified by other bandits, Deng Ji also asked everyone to wrap yellow scarves that had not been used for a long time on their helmets.
At the forefront, the heavy cavalry of officers and soldiers had broken into the front army of the Black Mountain thieves, and everywhere they passed, people turned on their backs, and all those who stood in front of this torrent of heavy armor were all mercilessly crushed and kicked away.
Those who have been knocked off by war horses, trampled down, and cut down by weapons, there are too many to count! Blood, flesh and bones flew in all directions, and howls, curses, and wails filled the field.
"Block! Obstruct! ”
As soon as they came into contact, the front army suffered heavy losses, if it weren't for Zhang Yan's promise in advance that the front army would have gained more, no one would be willing to act, Liu Shi was busy shouting loudly, shouting at the strong men to pounce, the two armies were entangled together, and the officers and soldiers bowed to threaten to surrender, as long as they were blocked, and when the left flank came up, maybe they could wipe out this heavy armored cavalry.
Not only in the root of the car, there are also many good hands among the black mountain thieves, to stop these heavy armored horses, to cut them off the waist can be the most meritorious, more than a dozen halberders rushed over obliquely from the side, taking advantage of their unpreparedness, waving weapons to outline the hooves of the horses, there are also spearmen who give up their weapons to trip, and in an instant they put over several horses, and the officers and soldiers behind are busy with their mounts to avoid, causing a lot of confusion, and the momentum is finally stopped.
The morale of the bandits suddenly soared, and one by one they sacrificed their lives to rush on, and Zhang Yi saw that the heavy armored cavalry had lost its sharpness, so the flag waved, and a light cavalry of more than 4,000 people rushed out and galloped to meet the heavy armored cavalry.
The cavalry was fast, the left flank of the Black Mountain thieves went out first, and the officers and soldiers came first with light cavalry, and they had slashed all the way into the rescue.
Deng Ji led his subordinates to fight against the officers and soldiers, and in the mixed battlefield, he had to be careful to be hit by a large number of officers and soldiers, pay attention to the fact that the more than 60 soldiers remained unscattered, and he also had to protect the archers who were not strong in close combat, which was very painstaking.
Although the archers are not strong in close combat, they are all selected good hands, and almost all of them can do the arrows within twenty steps, and they only have sixty soldiers in this tight group, and they are not afraid of accidentally hurting their allies.
Few people were guarding against archers in the mixed battlefield, and after fighting a few groups of officers and soldiers, the archers killed and injured the most, and Han Qi and other sword and shield soldiers did not have long weapons, but they didn't even grab the opportunity to shoot.
After a while, he finally encountered a group of nearly 200 officers and soldiers on light cavalry, and when he saw Deng Ji and others, he immediately rushed on horseback.
The light cavalry had no armor to protect themselves, and the archers bent their bows and arrows for the first time, and before they could face the officers and soldiers, seven or eight people in the cavalry team fell off their horses with arrows, but unfortunately the advantage stopped there, the two teams were not far apart, and they were too lazy to open the second bow, and the other party had already killed the front.
"Kill!"
The moment the war horses intersected, Deng Ji burst into flames, his spear probed, and he took the lead in picking out one person, and the gunmen were not to be outdone, trying their best to avoid the weapons waved in the opposite direction, and stabbed the enemy off the horse.
Che Huang waved his machete, rushed into the officers and soldiers cavalry and slashed and killed, and forcibly stopped the waist to intercept the rear team, Han Qi and other sword and shield pawns got the opportunity, and they were busy chopping melons for a while.
When the two teams staggered past and regrouped, the officers of the officers and soldiers cavalry sadly found that there were nearly eighty horses missing from their command, and the other party had only lost one horse.
"Rush!"
This time, it was Deng Ji's turn to lead the team to counterattack, without any hesitation, the sixty-heavy armored cavalry stepped on the roar, and crashed into the group of officers and soldiers, like a tiger into a lamb, boiling water and splashing ice.
The two officers and soldiers and cavalry were separated, and seeing that the loss was not small, Zhang Yan in the Chinese army saw it clearly, and was immediately overjoyed, and shouted: "Order Yang Feng on the right flank, wave the army and rush into the main formation of the official army; The order is poisoned, and after the Chinese army presses and takes over, he will go to fetch grain; Du Chang, Sun Li, Wang Dang, Colonel Zuo, kill me and destroy the cavalry in front of me! ”