Chapter 107: The Battle of Gushan (Part II)

"Huh? The yellow scarves have opened the door again, and the two sides have been fighting for a few months, so there shouldn't be any more war letters at this time, what do they want to do? Liu Cun was quite surprised.

Jiao He on the tall jujube red war horse looked intently: "Two horses, one flag, the leader is wearing fish scale armor, and the head is a red copper helmet, so the outfit must be a thief general, maybe it is Zhang Rao, this guy is really bold!" ”

Liu Cun smiled: "That's right, the flag behind him was blown away, and the word 'Zhang' on it was written well and imposingly, it seems that there are calligraphy masters and embroidery experts among the yellow scarves, haha!" ”

Jiao He also smiled, and the uneasiness in his heart suddenly came to naught: "He has good courage, he dares to stop within a hundred steps, if Taishi Ziyi is here, I'm afraid he will be unlucky, haha!" ”

"Zhang He's archery skills are also very high, no worse than Ziyi, haha!" Liu Cun laughed, turned to Jiao He and asked, "Brother Jiao, do you want to go and say hello to Zhang Rao together?" ”

Jiao He was stunned for a moment, and immediately straightened his neck: "Why not?" ”

"Let's go, let's meet him!"

Before Liu Cun's words fell, he had already beaten his horse out, and Xu Yan, who was holding high the handsome flag, rushed out at the same time like a shadow, and Jiao He hurriedly urged the horse to follow when he saw this.

Zhang Rao tilted his head slightly, staring at Liu Cun and the three of them who came on horseback, thinking that Liu Cun would scold him unrighteously, but who knew that Liu Cun would bow his hand to him from afar.

Zhang Rao suddenly lost his temper, so he had to respond loudly with his fists with both hands, otherwise he would lose his momentum: "Liu Yuanjun has always been good? ”

Liu Cun, who stopped the horse, said with a smile: "I can eat and sleep, and my body is great!" Liu Cunjiu admired General Zhang's prestige, and he saw him today. Sure enough, he was heroic, and when he went back, the two eldest brothers, Xu He and Sima Ju, would ask. The younger brother can proudly say that he has seen General Zhang Rao. Sure enough, it's a hero who stands up to the sky, haha! ”

Zhang Rao was stunned for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh faintly: "Liu Yuanjun is really extraordinary, I am fortunate to see it today, I Zhang Rao has no regrets!" ”

"General Zhang, can we stop fighting? You sent out more than 20,000 women and children after you passed, let's discuss it well, the younger brother knows that you don't have much food, and you can't enter Zhu'a and Dongpingling. If you can't get food, you have to transport it from Yanzhou, and it's winter. Liu Cun proposed very sincerely.

Zhang Rao didn't expect Liu Cun to come to this hand, and after being stunned, he smiled: "Okay, Liu Yuanjun, as long as you can defeat my 40,000 brothers today, Zhang Rao will never say anything!" Liu Yuanjun, please rest assured, although I, Zhang Rao, have been scolded by you as a bandit and a thief, I am not like others, who push the old and weak, women and children to the front of the battle as a substitute for the dead. I don't have the face to do it. ”

Liu Cun arched his hand: "General Zhang, Liu Cun has thanked General Zhang for tens of thousands of fathers and fellow villagers!" In this case, please be careful when the general returns, our army's vehicle-mounted bed crossbow can shoot 500 steps. It can also set fire, as long as our army breaks through the position in front of General Zhang, and General Zhang builds the Xiongguan with stones and logs. It was within the range of our army's crossbow arrows, and the 30,000 soldiers of Lord Jiao, the Taishou Jiao of Qi County, and Lord Han, the Lieutenant of Jinan. At the same time, it will also launch a fierce attack on General Zhang's two wings, which seem to be solid but have no depth, as long as the connection between General Zhang's two wings and the Chinese army is cut off. Or if my Langya army defeats General Zhang's middle position, General Zhang will lose. ”

Zhang Rao looked at Liu Cun blankly: "Why are you telling me these things?" ”

"It doesn't hurt to tell the general, because it's too late for the general to adjust, although your army's position is condescending and has a defensive advantage, but because the brothers under the general's command don't understand the rules, the position is full of debris, the weeds and thorns in front of the two fences in front of the formation have not been eradicated, and so many grass sheds have been built along the mountain behind the position, and the weather is dry and dry, just a fire can force the people inside to be powerless, and then our army will rush again, and there are still a few people on the general's left and right flanks who can pick up swords and guns to fight hard?" Liu Cun said very frankly.

Zhang Rao's heart was shocked, but he recovered instantly, he laughed and said loudly: "Liu Yuanjun, I don't believe that the officers and soldiers of Jinan State and Qi County on both sides have the ability to capture my two flank positions, if the 50,000 horses are Liu Yuanjun's wolf-toothed soldiers, I, Zhang Rao, would have slipped away long ago, haha!" Lord Jun, the sword and gun have no eyes, you take care! ”

"General Zhang, take care!"

Zhang Rao turned the horse's head and slapped the horse away, rushed into the gate and immediately shouted: "Quick! Tear down the straw huts in the left and right stockades, as well as wood, mats and quilts, and throw them all out of the fence for Lao Tzu, quickly! ”

The faces of the more than a dozen Yellow Turban generals waiting in the gate changed greatly, and they rushed to their respective positions like flying, shouting as they ran, embarrassed, and before the Yellow Turban soldiers in the positions on both flanks could understand, the earth-shattering war drums of the Langya Army and the officers and soldiers on the left and right flanks had already come.

In the strong rhythm of the drums, the formation of the Langya army took the lead in advancing forward, and the 30,000 officers and soldiers on both wings shouted in unison and marched up.

From time to time, the red long arrows that detected the distance were shot out from the twelve neatly marching arrays of the Langya army, and the soldiers in front of and on both sides of each array shouted loudly to maintain the formation, and only half a bowl of tea was done, and the 13,000 soldiers of the Langya army marched two hundred and fifty steps as a whole to the beat of the drum.

The drums suddenly stopped, the sound of the trumpet suddenly sounded, and the four thousand strong crossbow formations were fired in order, and the dense sharp arrows flew like dark clouds towards the middle position of the Yellow Turban Army, and in the blink of an eye, the screams and shouts were endless.

The earth-shattering drums sounded again, the smoke and flames in the two bed crossbow arrays were filled with black smoke and miasma, and the screams that pierced the air had not disappeared, and three hundred and sixty spear-like giant arrows flew towards the Yellow Turban Army's middle army with clusters of flames, nearly half of the rockets smashed through the second fence in the Yellow Turban Army's depth, and after a series of crashing and shattering sounds, wails erupted, and the entire central position of the Yellow Turban Army suddenly burst into flames.

Before the chaotic Yellow Turban soldiers organized a defense, pieces of dense crossbow arrows and huge rockets fell from the sky again, and more than 10,000 soldiers on the middle position of the Yellow Turban Army fell one by one in the dense rain of arrows before they could organize a counterattack.

Seeing that the people in front of them were in chaos and could not be organized at all, the Langya army once again showed an extremely arrogant side, and the whole army advanced rapidly like a wolf under the urging of the earth-shattering war drums.

Under the guidance of the sound of the copper whistle, the four thousand-strong crossbow formations of the uniform division covered the sword shield array and the spear formation in the way of alternate firing to launch an attack, and the two crossbow formations simply stopped firing, and under the control of the sharp whistles of their respective officers, every five people pushed a crossbow car, followed by the indomitable spear array and sword and shield formation on the left and right, until they forced to the front of the Yellow Turban Army's position fifty paces before stopping, and quickly adjusted the angle of fire to prepare the rocket in the melodious sound of copper horns.

Seeing that the Langya army in the middle was so fierce and powerful, the officers and soldiers of Qi County and Jinan State on the left and right flanks were greatly stimulated, and 30,000 officers and soldiers quickly advanced under the roar of the generals, and only stopped in a hurry until they reached the edge of the opponent's bow and arrow range.

Dozens of heralds galloped back and forth between the left and right flanks and the Chinese army, hoarsely conveying the orders of the Chinese army one by one, and the 8,000 crossbowmen hidden behind the phalanx of foot soldiers on both wings raised the strong crossbows presented by the Langya army, and began to fire twelve rounds of salvos in the dense drums of the army, and another 3,000 soldiers with strong bows struck the fire sickle in pairs, lit torches, held a handful of arrows that had just been taken out of the oil of fire, and waited for the crossbowmen to complete the twelve rounds of covered salvo. Tens of thousands of rockets were then fired into the Yellow Turban Army's position, which was full of flammable materials.

The overwhelming rain of arrows and the non-stop fire attack of the officers and soldiers brought huge casualties and panic to the positions of the Yellow Turban Army, and the generals and colonels of the Yellow Turban Army on the Gushan Pass looked like death, and the entire eight-mile-long defensive position was like a rolling and roaring fire dragon, the earth-shattering killing sound passed through the billowing smoke that blocked the field of vision, and the Yellow Turban soldiers who shouted in fear escaped from the purgatory-like defensive position and rushed back to the pass, and the soldiers who were caught in the middle of the fugitives were full of fire, and the screams came and went, and even overshadowed the drums and trumpets that shook the heavens and the earth.

Directly behind the attack position of the Langya army, Liu Cun on the platform of the Chinese army kept his eyes firmly on the battle situation in front and on the left and right flanks, and allowed the armies to exert their full strength in accordance with the offensive methods formulated before the war, and no longer issued specific orders.

"My lord, you can attack it, rush to the pass with all your might, fight hard, and you will definitely be able to win the pass! Otherwise, Zhang Rao's thief is likely to stabilize his position, stabilize his position again, and resist stubbornly, and then we will have a hard time attacking from the back! Han Yi, the lieutenant of Jinan who was covered with sweat, shouted anxiously, and Zhao Rong, the lieutenant of Qi County who had just arrived, also asked for an order to launch a general attack.

Liu Cun pointed to the two wings and explained unhurriedly: "Just now the two generals fought very well, quickly seized the opportunity to wave the army, and one shot at the left and right flanks of the enemy whose morale plummeted into a mess, and then covered with crossbow arrows, rockets followed, the enemy flanks suffered heavy casualties and fires, the surviving enemy was terrified, most of the enemy fled to the steep mountains on both wings in a panic, and could not return to the pass in the middle at all, and finally it was difficult to escape the fate of being captured by our army, and the remnants of the enemy army fled back in the middle of the road were only about half, At this moment, Zhang Rao can gather up to 15,000 people in his hands, and the two generals may wish to think about it, more than 40,000 men and horses will be defeated in less than half of them in two hours, does Zhang Rao still have the courage to recapture the position? ”

Zhao Rong was stunned, and the shrewd Han Ju suddenly woke up, and immediately asked Liu Cun: "Did the Lord deliberately give Zhang Rao time to stabilize his position, and allocate all his troops to arrange defenses under the pass, so that the Lingshan Battalion led by General Lu Pei and more than 2,000 wolf tooth elites can launch a fatal blow from behind?" ”

Liu Cun grinned: "Isn't this exactly the plan we made before the war?" ”

Zhao Rong hurriedly patted his head: "Look at my memory, I forgot to fight so much, my lord deliberately gave the thief chief Zhang Rao a chance, and asked him to transfer all his troops to the corner of the pass to resist stubbornly, so as to alleviate the resistance encountered by General Lu Pei from behind the pass, in this way, General Lu Pei will be able to succeed in one blow, and our army will then wave up and attack back and forth, and will be able to easily cut off Zhang Rao's head!" ”

The generals and colonels cheered repeatedly, but the laughter did not stop, and a lieutenant of the Langya Army rushed to report in a hurry: "My lord, it's not good, the thieves abandoned the pass and fled southβ€”β€”" (to be continued......)

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