Chapter 178: Good luck
Deputy Director Tao said that he hadn't read a few military books, but it was rare that he was not pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, which was indeed the case, and the few hands that shocked Qiao Rui were actually a little experience accumulated when he used to play interstellar Warcraft, and his tactical purpose was also very simple, that is, to rely on resources and many arms to fight a melee war of attrition with the enemy, and to make up for the weakness of his own serious lack of experience in commanding the battle with the quality and quantity of the army. Otherwise, if you fight with Huainan veteran Zhang Xun in a proper manner, it will really give Zhang Xun a chance to create a miracle with the weak defeating the strong.
So there was no way, in order to promote the strengths and avoid the weaknesses and try to limit Zhang Xun's command director in the battle, Deputy Director Tao also unprecedentedly threw himself into the trapping camp soon after the war began, planning to use the brave and good fighting of the trapped camp to impact Zhang Xunjun's gradually established position, continue to disrupt Zhang Xun's formation, and find and create opportunities for all-out melee. At the same time, in order to ensure the success of the charge of the trapped camp, Deputy Director Tao also sent 3,000 elite soldiers to cover the charge of the trapped camp, striving to make the trapped camp enter the enemy group and disrupt the enemy's position. But what Deputy Director Tao didn't expect was that the tactics he learned from real-time strategy made the experienced veteran General Zhang Xun make a huge mistake............ "Auxiliary troops cover the charge of elite soldiers?" I have already played a tactic that I didn't want twenty years ago, and Tao Ying wants to exterminate the thief in front of me? Seeing that Deputy Director Tao wanted to drag himself into the melee, and also used cannon fodder to cover such low-level tactics as the charge of elite soldiers, General Zhang Xun, who had basically established a position, couldn't help but feel a little angry, and said with a cruel smile: "Very good, just let you, the thief, know what is called a formation, and what is called ever-changing, and be single-minded!" ”
With a cruel smile, General Zhang Xun explained his tactics to the generals around him, while patiently waiting for the Xuzhou army to rush closer, and soon, when the three thousand Xuzhou auxiliaries - at least General Zhang Xun thought they were auxiliaries, when the three thousand auxiliary soldiers rushed to the side of Zhang Xun's army round array against the rain of arrows, they were immediately blocked by the long shields of Zhang Xunjun's soldiers, and the huge long shields formed a solid shield wall, blocking the advance of the three thousand Xuzhou auxiliaries, and at the same time, there were countless bayonet spears and spears that stabbed out from behind the shields. Do not give the Xuzhou auxiliaries any chance to break through the shield wall with their usual strength. The reaction of the Xuzhou auxiliaries was also as General Zhang Xun expected, and they immediately detoured to the left and right flanks, looking for other breakthroughs that could break into the formation, and also gave way to make the way for the Xuzhou elite army of about 800 people behind them to rush to the front of Zhang Xun's army.
At this time, General Zhang Xun, who was standing high in the middle of the flag array, waved the command flag, and the neat shield wall of Zhang Xun's army immediately scattered left and right, and he retreated backwards with the shield, giving way to an entry road with long shields on both sides, or an entry road that could directly penetrate into Zhang Xunjun's flag array. Seeing this scene, the seven or eight hundred Xuzhou elite soldiers who had obviously never seen anything in the world suddenly burst into laughter, and without saying a word, they entered this road where the shield was clamped, and all the remaining ones rushed into this road full of countless killing machines.
Still seeing this scene, General Zhang Xun continued to laugh without saying anything, and did not hesitate to wave the order flag, the shield wall that was still standing just now immediately had a new change, the left and right teams at the same time to the rear of the Xuzhou elite soldiers interspersed with detours, the left team faced the outside of the formation, blocking the Xuzhou army may kill the rescuers, and the right team faced the formation with a shield to stand still, blocking the retreat of the Xuzhou elite soldiers. And where the left and right shield walls dodged, two Huainan elite soldiers with distinct banners and armor also suddenly appeared, killing the team of Xuzhou elite soldiers from left to right, shouting and killing into the sky, "Kill!" The thieves have been tricked! Kill all the thieves! ”
"Pottery thief, do you know what it means to fight more locally than less?" General Zhang Xun laughed proudly.
"My lord, our team has a plan! General Gao Shun was deliberately put into the Fangyuan array by Zhang Xun! General Qiao Rui's face changed dramatically and exclaimed.
"Zhang Xun is crazy? Dare to put my trap camp in the formation? Deputy Director Tao exclaimed.
"Soldiers, Blade Formation!" Gao Shun, who was surrounded by Zhang Xunjun, shouted so calmly, "Target, Zhang Xun Pifu flag formation, cut off Zhang Xun's head!" ”
"No!" In the neat sound of agreement, the flag was waved quickly, and the trapping camp of only about 800 people also quickly formed a formation, or at a speed that made Zhang Xun such a big expert in the battle open his mouth, and quickly formed a huge sharp arrow formation, Gao Shun personally served as the tip of the arrow, and with a wave of the steel knife in his hand, he took the lead in killing the Huainan Army flag formation where Zhang Xun was, and the soldiers of the 800 trapped camp charged together, like a sharp arrow off the string, and quickly plunged forward. The Huainan team that killed from the left and right wings also never dreamed that the trapped camp formation was so fast, and they couldn't react a little, and immediately collided with the wing arrowhead that the trapped camp opened to the left and right wings, not only failed to break up or cut off the trapped camp team as expected, but also forced to start a melee battle with the trapped camp.
It was also at this time that poor General Zhang Xun realized what a huge mistake he had made - what kind of Xuzhou elite soldiers were the 800 enemies he deliberately put into the formation? It's literally eight hundred battlefield monsters! The team he sent to flank them was also the most elite warrior in Liyang City, but in front of these monsters, they were as weak as a three-year-old child.
In melee combat, the attacks of Huainan soldiers basically don't play much role in front of this group of monsters, they are either easily blocked or easily dodged, and they are even taken advantage of the opportunity to counterattack and be shocked with weapons, but the steel knives and spears of this group of monsters are as fast as lightning, and every time they are cut, they can cut down a Huainan soldier, and at least they will cut off the hands and feet of Huainan soldiers, and at worst, they will directly cut off the heads of Huainan soldiers! Every time a shot is stabbed, there is always a Huainan soldier who is poked out of a transparent hole, and many Huainan soldiers are pierced by a spear at the same time!
The condescending Zhang Xun even saw with his own eyes that one of his generals grabbed the spear by the two soldiers in the camp and pulled off the war horse alive, but the general had not yet landed, and three or four spears stabbed out at the same time had already pierced him into a few blood holes in the air, wailing and falling to the ground and killing him on the spot, and the Huainan soldiers beside him also screamed and retreated, completely forgetting that they were fighting more and less locally, and had surrounded the enemy.
The most terrifying thing is the arrow position of the camp, the force in the Three Kingdoms era is only a first-class Gao Shun has no special record in terms of fighting generals, but when it comes to the melee battlefield of the charge, Gao Shun is really like a fish in water and the dragon returns to the sea, a steel knife danced directly into a ball of light in his hand, any enemy who dared to stop in front of him was either cut off his hands and feet or his head was cut off, and several gun-wielding veterans around Gao Shun were also unstoppable, Any weapons attacking Gao Shun were all blocked by their spears and bounced off, Gao Shun had a few fish in front of him and the enemies who were killed from both sides also fell under their incredibly fast steel guns, covering Gao Shun striding towards the banner formation of the Huainan Army, and the soldiers in the back of the camp also kept the formation very perfect while fighting bravely to kill the enemy, and the huge arrows continued to advance towards the Huainan Army Banner Formation firmly and steadily. All of them were covered with a carpet of flesh and blood, and on top of the carpet of flesh and blood, there were also mutilated corpses with blurred flesh and blood, and the corpses of incomplete Huainan soldiers!
Seeing the majesty of the trapped camp, not only did General Zhang Xun, who deliberately let the trapped camp enter the battle, open his mouth wide, and his face was full of disbelief, but General Qiao Rui, who had already surrendered to the Xuzhou army, also opened his mouth wide, and it took a long time before he wailed from the bottom of his heart: "Fortunately, the trapped camp was not invested in Xuzhou during the Battle of Zhuyi, and fortunately, I didn't dare to lead the troops to fight a field battle with the trapped camp later, otherwise, I wouldn't even have a chance to surrender to the lord!" ”
What made poor General Zhang Xun collapse was not only the army of the trapped camp, the Xuzhou elite army that had been mistaken by Zhang Xun for an auxiliary soldier before successfully covered the trapped camp and broke into the enemy formation, and did not harass and contain it on the periphery like an ordinary auxiliary soldier, but the soldiers were divided into two ways to strongly impact the turtle square circle array laid by the Huainan army, and the shield hand of the Huainan army in several places was so slightly mistaken, and it was immediately seized by the battle-hardened Xuzhou elite soldiers, and even the people with shields were overturned to the ground, and then the Xuzhou elite soldiers covering behind immediately rushed up, Fiercely wielding a spear to try to fill the leak of the Huainan soldiers barrel upside down, the knife and axe hand is desperately slashing the Huainan soldiers behind the long shield next to them, as much as possible to expand the gap, finally, the first gap was opened by the Xuzhou army, thousands of Xuzhou elite soldiers cheered and swarmed into the Huainan army's turtle formation, desperately slashing and stabbing to beat those Huainan army archers who could not retreat, General Zhang Xun finally in the Xuzhou army repeatedly harassed the impact of the turtle formation also appeared to loosen.
There are also two encounters on the battlefield side, Chen Zhi led 3,000 infantry after drowning the more than 1,000 infantry sent by Zhang Xun to block the charge, and soon relied on the individual combat effectiveness and strength advantage to disrupt the enemy's team, during which Chen Zhi was also very lucky to catch the enemy general who led the infantry, and in less than three rounds, Chen Zhi pierced the chest of the unlucky tooth general with a shot, and then stabbed one of the two generals of the enemy, so that the enemy lost the two commanders, Falling into a state of chaos without a leader, when the Xuzhou army, which had more to fight and less to fight again, it quickly completely dispersed and killed this unlucky enemy, and then under the leadership of Chen Zhi, he continued to kill the turtle formation of the Huainan army without hesitation. The gentleman's army over there also rushed to fill in the gaps with a gentlemanly demeanor, shooting those Huainan soldiers who fled in all directions with bows and arrows, and also supporting another encounter battlefield with more and more accurate bows and arrows, specializing in sniping those lone enemies.
As the friendly forces continue to break into the turtle formation to contain the enemy team, the pressure on the trapped camp team is getting smaller and smaller, and the speed of the assault is naturally getting faster and faster. But what made General Zhang Xun vomit blood was that because the Huainan soldiers had been frightened by the madness of the trapped camp, the formation was seriously loosened between the formations, and Zhang Shan stepped forward to restrain the result that he was found by the trapped camp team, and Gao Shun, who had been killed all over the blood, roared, and the four soldiers who had even their armor had been broken in the bloody battle rushed up together, two knives and two guns slashed at Zhang Shan at the same time, Zhang Dan hurriedly blocked the east and couldn't block the west, The Huainan soldiers around him were paralyzed by the four trapped camp soldiers whose faces were splashed with flesh and blood, and they didn't even have the courage to come forward to rescue, and watched Zhang Dan's left arm being unloaded by the trapped camp soldiers, and then he was stabbed in the face by a shot, and the head of the gun pierced through the skull, and he died on the spot.
As soon as the commander of the army died, Zhang Xunjun's last thousand-strong reserve team also collapsed suddenly, Qu Jiangya screamed and took the lead in fleeing for his life, and the soldiers all hugged their heads and ran away, and they fled in the blink of an eye. Seeing that the opportunity was rare, Gao Shun slashed over an enemy in front of him with a knife, snatched the spear in his hand, and threw out the steel knife that he had cut out of the gap and rolled the blade, and in the middle of an enemy who was cowering and retreating went straight to his chest, and then raised the spear he had just snatched and pointed directly at the Huainan Army flag array, and roared loudly, "Zhang Xun Pifu is there, kill-!" ”
"Kill!" In the earth-shattering roar, there were less than 700 people left in the camp team to launch the most violent charge, the target was directly aimed at the Huainan Army flag array, and the Huainan Army soldiers on both sides and behind were either paralyzed or frightened, no one dared to rush forward to block, and watched the trapped camp frantically kill the self-army flag formation, and countless people were still glad in their hearts, "Finally, I don't have to be forced to fight with these monsters." ”
"Ahh Seeing that the trapped camp killed him directly, poor General Zhang Xun couldn't help but be distracted no matter how rich his battlefield experience was, so he quickly jumped off the command platform and led more than 100 personal soldiers to run away, and the other bannermen and heralds also scattered with a bang, and the trapped camp chased after him, and by the way, he kicked General Zhang Xun's command platform and cut down General Zhang Xun's handsome flag. As a result, as soon as the handsome flag fell, the morale of the Huainan army team not only immediately vented, but also completely collapsed the already crumbling position, the Xuzhou army was thunderous up and down, and more and more rushed to kill the enemy, and the turtle formation of the Huainan army rushed out of more than a dozen gaps in one breath, and the Xuzhou soldiers generally poured into the turtle formation inside and outside to attack the enemy, and General Zhang Xun had always wanted to fight in a formation, and finally was beaten into a big melee by the Xuzhou army.
"Good luck." Seeing such a scene, Tao Ying first snapped his fingers, glad that the brave performance of the camp finally broke the deadlock, and then quickly turned to Xu Chu next to him, and ordered with a smile: "Zhongkang, take two thousand troops up, strive to take down Zhang Xun's head, if you succeed, reward you with a beauty!" ”
"No." Xu Chu agreed while holding his fists, and said with a smile: "But the beauty is exempt, the last general is not a woman, if the lord can reward the last general with a good war horse, the last general will definitely take Zhang Xun's head!" ”
"Deal." Tao Ying agreed with a smile, Xu Chu did not hesitate, and immediately led the team to charge, and Qiao Rui also took the initiative to ask: "Lord, let the last general also go, the last general is willing to behead Zhang Xun and sacrifice it to the lord's account, in order to repay the lord's great kindness." ”
"No, you stay." Tao Ying shook his head and explained: "First, I still have to leave a reserve team to prevent Liyang City from sending troops to rescue, and second, I don't want you to have too deep a grudge with the Liyang army, if our army can successfully cut off Zhang Xun's head, I plan to send you to Liyang City to surrender, so it would be better for you not to make enemies with them." ”
"It turns out that the lord still has such a plan, and the last general will obey the order." Qiao Rui suddenly realized, hurriedly agreed, honestly stayed by Tao Ying's side, and took on the important task of protecting Deputy Director Tao as a new general - of course, if the two hundred personal soldiers around Deputy Director Tao were not all Danyang veterans left by Tao Qian, then General Qiao Rui would definitely be so moved that he cried on the spot.
When the Huainan army team quickly approached Zhang Xun, and when the defenders in Liyang City put down the drawbridge and prepared to go out of the city to respond, the trapped camp led by Gao Shun finally chased Zhang Xun's team close, and was twenty or thirty steps away, Gao Shun yelled "Zhang Xun Piff", attracting Zhang Xun to look back, suddenly stretched his ape arm, threw out the spear in his hand, and the spear flew through the air. Whistling in the battlefield sky drew a wonderful curve, lightning shot in front of Zhang Xun, Zhang Xun finally reacted and was just about to dodge, the sharp head of the spear had accurately hit his throat, the thick spear passed through the throat, and General Zhang Xun, who was experienced in the battlefield, planted his horse and left the bloody battlefield he loved forever.
"Experienced in the field?" This is Gao Shun's only price for General Zhang Xun after learning about Zhang Xun's resume, "I went to the battlefield at the age of twenty, became a general directly by virtue of my scholar background, fought for twenty-five years, and never personally led the troops to charge, which is considered to be rich experience in the battlefield?" I went to the battlefield at the age of thirteen, starting from an ordinary infantryman, and now I have been fighting for 26 years, and I can't even remember the number of times I have led the army to charge and fall into battle alone, so what am I? ”
As soon as Zhang Xun died, the Huainan army, whose formation had already completely collapsed, no longer had a chance to reverse the situation, and was completely submerged by the Xuzhou army that had an absolute advantage in quantity and quality, either killed or captured, and countless people scattered and fled, and countless people who fell to the dead, and occasionally a few teams resisted stubbornly under the leadership of the grassroots generals, and tried to escape back to Liyang City, but they were also scattered and defeated by Xu Chu's team and other Xuzhou teams that were quickly organized into teams, and the battle quickly entered the end. Seeing that the situation outside the city was not good, Wei Xian, the general of Huainan who stayed in Liyang, also changed his mind, and did not dare to take the last 5,000 defenders in the city to risk out of the city, so he pulled the drawbridge again and hid in the city without mentioning it.
At the same time, on the battlefield of the Huainan Navy Division's camp, Lu Su's Xuzhou Division finally basically destroyed the outer fortifications of the Huainan Navy Division's camp, and began to use the cannon fodder team as the vanguard, advancing into the camp inch by inch, using the advantage of troops to exert pressure on the Huainan Navy Division little by little, forcing the enemy to retreat to the dock -- this is not only Deputy Director Tao's explanation before leaving, but also Lu Su's consistent style of using troops, is the most like to win by surprise.
In view of the slow advance of the Xuzhou army, Liu Xuan, who was fighting with the Huainan Navy Division's warships on the river, specially sent the strategist Xue Li to negotiate with Lu Su, asking the Xuzhou army to speed up the attack, strive to wipe out the Huainan Navy Division on land, and reduce the pressure on the water surface of Liu Xiang's water division -- the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, although the Huainan Navy Division is being attacked by Liu Xiang's army and the Xuzhou army, it is still superior to Liu Xiang's water division in terms of quality and quantity, so Liu Xiang fought more the river. The Xuzhou army is urgently needed to share the pressure.
"It's not that you don't want to break the deadlock as soon as possible, it's because of the situation." Lu Su politely bowed his hand to Xue Li, and pointed to the Liyang battlefield in the distance, which was still in full swing, and explained: "Sir, please see, my lord is fighting bloodily with the enemy's horse infantry, taking away most of the main soldiers of our army. ”
Lu Su's explanation is not unreasonable, and it is also the right reason for the soldiers to reserve reserves for two-line operations to prevent accidents, and it makes sense no matter where it is - but it can't stand up to Mr. Xue Li Xue has a grudge against Xuzhou, Mr. Xue Li was actually the Peng Chengxiang of Xuzhou, and later after Tao Qian, the cheap father of Deputy Director Tao, entered Xuzhou, he was driven across the Yangtze River by force by Tao Qian because he was not very obedient, and was forced to vote for Liu Xuan, saying that Mr. Xue Li did not hate the Xuzhou army in his heart, which was naturally a lie. Therefore, after Mr. Xue Li returned to the battlefield on the river by boat, he not only explained the hardships of the Xuzhou army, but also fanned the flames in front of Liu Xuan, insisting that the Xuzhou army wanted to retain its strength, and wanted to catch up with all the Huainan naval divisions on the warship, and go to the river to fight with Liu Xuan's army to defeat both sides, so that the despicable and evil Xuzhou army could reap the benefits.
Hearing Xue Li's words, Liu Xuan, who was already worried that his strength had been damaged too much, was furious, and said angrily: "Tao Yingpifu, dare to do this!" I don't hesitate to personally lead the army to help you, but you still want to borrow a knife to kill people, and use the hand of Chen Fen to weaken me! Okay, you do the first year of junior high school, I do the fifteenth, Mingjin collects the troops, and we also save our strength, let Chen Fen go ashore to fight with you! ”
"The lord is high-minded, and his subordinates are full of admiration!" Xue Li happily agreed.
"Lord, don't do this!" There are also people in Liu Xuanjun's team who understand, at least Yi Yi quickly jumped out to stop him, and anxiously arched his hand and said: "Lord, don't sing gold!" Don't bang for gold! Now that our army has joined forces with the Xuzhou army, it has forced Chen Fen's naval division to a dead end, as long as it continues to join forces to attack, even if it cannot annihilate Chen Fen's naval division, it can also make it suffer heavy casualties and be unable to fight again! At this moment, if Ming Jin retreats, Chen Fen's sailors have a chance to breathe, in case he leads the fleet to flee to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, then it will be difficult to annihilate it! ”
"Run, run, me?!" Liu Miao didn't like Shiyi very much, but when he heard Shiyi's words at this moment, he was even more angry, and waved his hand and shouted: "Even if Chen Fen Pifu escapes, he must have fled to Lujiang to join Yuan Shu's rebels and continue to fight with the Xuzhou army, what does it have to do with me?" Mingjin, raise the flag, and the whole army withdraws from the battlefield! If the Xuzhou army sent an envoy to ask, they would say that our army had suffered too many casualties, the queue was out of order, and it was urgent to retire and reorganize the team. ”
"But, my lord, ......." Shi Yi originally wanted to explain deeply, but Xue Li couldn't wait to carry out the order, so that the flagship Ming Jinhe played the retreat flag, and the warships of Liu Xuanjun's naval division, which was fighting with the Huainan Naval Division, also turned around and turned their sails one after another, and began to retreat and assemble downstream, giving way to the retreat channel of the Huainan Naval Division. Seeing this scene, Shi Yi couldn't help but sigh secretly, "The eyes of the rat are light, the eyes of the rat are light!" ”
At the same time, the Xuzhou Division, which was responsible for attacking the camp of the Huainan Water Division, also discovered the situation of Liu Xuan's naval division Mingjin's retreat from the battlefield, and hurriedly sent a herald to Lu Su to report the situation. ”
"What about the departure channel? Did you let it out? Lu Su asked quietly and loudly.
"Let it out!" Jiang Qin, who was proficient in water warfare, replied loudly: "At present, the northwest wind is blowing on the river, and Liu Xiangpifu's sailors quickly retreated to the downstream to assemble by taking advantage of the upwind, completely giving way to the port. ”
Lu Su smiled and muttered, "If the lord hears the news, he will definitely be happy to hug the little girl named Sun Shangxiang and kiss him a few more times." Liu Yuanjun, Liu Yuanjun, you really did it to yourself this time. ”
After muttering, Lu Su stood up and shouted to Hou Cheng and Jiang Qin: "General Hou Cheng, General Jiang Qin, take your headquarters people immediately, drive all the enemies of the Huainan Navy Division to the warship, let them flee to the Lujiang River, and there will be a time for him Liu Xuan to cry in the future!" ”
(To be continued)