Chapter 498: The First Battle of the Red Line
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Thick smoke rose into the sky, and the ten pontoon bridges on the canal, which had just been built, turned into fireworks.
Zhang Jin, who was in the distance, said that he also knew that Dou Jiande had suddenly killed at this time, and he was still a little worried, but after seeing that under Dou Jiande's banner, only about 50,000 soldiers and horses crossed the river, they burned the pontoon bridge on their heels. This move made Zhang Jincheng laugh and be happy.
"Dou Jiande actually didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and he had no way out. That Lao Tzu will fulfill him today, so that he will not want to return to the north shore again. ”
Zhang Jin said that a middle-aged man dressed as a scribe in a Confucian robe under his command frowned and said, "Dou Jiande is the overlord of Western Chu, who is breaking the cauldron and fighting against the water. In this way, the soldiers and horses in the river know that the back is broken, and only by fighting to the death can they have a way to live, but they are afraid that they will stimulate the strongest combat power. This Dou Jiande is indeed not simple, this is to be put to death and then born, the king, you must be careful to deal with it, and you can't underestimate the enemy. ”
"Dou Jiande is just a small peasant in the countryside, and his subordinates are just mud-legged farmers. The king, Dou Jiande is just a horseman, and now he is only rushing to kill with only forty or fifty thousand soldiers and horses, but I am afraid that he is looking for death. O king, we have two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and one of us will drown them with a mouthful of saliva. The person who spoke was Liu Badao's former general Ge Qian, who failed to escape that day, and later surrendered to Zhang Jincheng. However, he had received a letter from Liu Badao two days ago, asking him to rebel before the battle.
Li Deyi, another old subordinate of Liu Badao, also hurriedly agreed, bluntly saying that the use of people can also pile up Dou Jiande's puppet and his little people.
Zhang Jin said that he was very happy when he heard the words, and the order was sent down, and all the departments attacked together to annihilate Dou Jiande.
On one side was Dou Jiande's 47,000 men and horses, beating and rushing, extremely fierce.
On one side is the rabble of more than 200,000 people called by Zhang Jin, a large number of people, like an ocean, boundless.
However, although Zhang Jin said that there are more than 200,000 people, most of them are rabble. And most of them are the two families of Sun and Liu who have just been annexed, and the two teams that are not strong in combat power have long been disrupted and reorganized at this time, and the officers and men in the army do not know each other. During the war, under the fierce impact of Dou Jiande's army, Zhang Jin said that although there were many people on one side, it was about to collapse at the touch of a button, but it was like snow water meeting molten iron, constantly melting.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Jin, who supervised the battle in the rear, said that he did not care. What he has is a human being, and he doesn't feel heartache at all when he dies a little bit or two. snatched his mace from his own soldiers, Zhang Jincheng waved his big hand and rode forward, followed by Zhang Jincheng's 10,000 personal guards and 20,000 internal troops.
Although the current personal guard and the internal army are not up to the strong standards he listed in the past, they are also the strongest selected from hundreds of thousands of people. In particular, his 10,000 personal guards were all cavalry, all of whom had armor. Zhang Jin said that he took the lead, and 30,000 horses and iron streams followed him.
Dou Jiande took the Hejian Rebels to stare at one place, and chased and killed. His idea was simple, to break the face in battle. drove away Zhang Jincheng's defeated soldiers, but the position was chaotic. As long as he is scattered, he will be able to directly take Zhang Jin's Chinese army, capture the thief and capture the king first.
However, his calculation was quickly miscalculated, Zhang Jin said that he had not fallen for many years, although he was brutal, but his strength was very fierce. He wielded a fanged club, and there was no one in his command along the way. Soon, like an iron plate, Dou Jiande's offensive was blocked.
After leading the guards and the internal army to block Dou Jiande's tidal attack, Zhang Jincheng said that a cruel smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, and he waved his big hand. The herald behind him held the long horn and blew it straight, and after the whining military order came out, countless soldiers and horses poured in from all directions. Although these soldiers and horses were far less powerful than Zhang Jin's personal guards, they were superior to the number of people and gradually surrounded Dou Jiande.
Seeing that the brothers around him continued to fall one by one, Dou Jiande's hair was all open.
"General, the brothers can't support it anymore, hurry up and raise the banner and let Sun Liu's old ministry rebel." Fan Yuan stabbed down a cavalryman named Zhang Jincheng with a shot, rushed to Dou Jiande's horse and said loudly.
Dou Jiande shook his head, now is not the time. At this time, letting Sun Liu's old troops rebel against him could not give Zhang Jincheng a fatal blow. Sun Liu's old department is their last hole card, and he will not use it until the most important moment.
Horses neighed, more and more people fell, and the situation was getting more and more critical. …,
Just when Dou Jiande was about to help but want to send a signal, his eyes suddenly swept to the battlefield, except for their Hejian Righteous Army and Zhang Jincheng's soldiers and horses, there were other people on the battlefield.
I saw that behind the countless soldiers and horses, there were actually a lot of ragged people. At a glance, these people numbered at least two or three hundred thousand, no less than the number of their warring sides. The first time he saw these people, he knew who they were. Zhang Jin said that he was once his fourth brother, and he already knew Zhang's style. Every time he passes through a city, he will plunder and coerce the people to go with the army, which is his style.
Looking at these people, Dou Jiande's eyes lit up, "Bow barracks, southeast, free throwing, ten consecutive shots, put"
The herald passed down the order, and the 5,000 archers who had been guarded by Dou Jiande's soldiers and horses in the middle immediately opened their bows and arrows. With an order, a sharp whistling sound resounded throughout the battlefield, and five thousand arrows flew into the sky in an instant, forming a dark cloud of arrows.
The next moment, sharp arrows fell from the sky, and a dense rain of arrows suddenly enveloped a large area in the southeast direction. Those Zhang Jin, who didn't even have armor and shields, said that his subordinates were instantly devastated.
Countless people fell to the ground with arrows, and the howls and screams continued. All of a sudden, a blank space appeared in the thick encirclement.
Dou Jiande waved his horse lance, pointed to the southeast, and yelled "kill"
Countless men and horses followed Dou Jiande straight to the southeast to kill, and most of the people and horses there could not even reach the foreign army in Zhang Jin's standard. In the face of the fierce impact of Dou Jiande's army, it continued to collapse. Dou Jiande led the army to chase and fight fiercely, and ignored Zhang Jin's personal guards and internal troops, who were also chasing fiercely behind.
Dou Jiande's army was like a red-hot iron chisel, and it quickly burned a passage in the endless Zhang Jincheng soldiers and horses. Breaking out of the encirclement, Dou Jiande did not stop, and immediately led his troops to kill more than 100,000 people who were watching the battle in a daze not far away.
More than 100,000 people, all of them were unarmed, and Dou Jiande's army, whose eyes were red by this killing, was shocked, and he fled in all directions in an instant. Dou Jiande only cared about driving the people with soldiers and horses to rush against Zhang Jincheng's army, and while rushing, Dou Jiande ordered the whole army to shout, "Zhang thief is defeated, abandon his weapon and avoid death"
"Zhang thief is defeated, abandon his weapon to avoid death"
On the bank of the river for dozens of miles on the south bank of the canal, there are people and horses everywhere, and people are crowded. The soldiers and horses on both sides, plus those millions, have already gathered about five or six hundred thousand horses on the land of dozens of miles. Dense flow of people, if you rush to the market in general.
Those people who were driven by Dou Jiande's army fled in all directions, constantly crashing into Zhang Jincheng's army. And the constant roar of "Zhang thief defeated, abandon weapons to avoid death" in Dou Jiande's army made those soldiers panic.
Some believe, some don't, but many more are already distraught.
The chaotic battle lasted for more than an hour, and by this time, the entire battlefield on the south bank had been completely chaotic. There are people everywhere, but there are very few complete queues of soldiers and horses. Dou Jiande's soldiers and horses were also divided into three divisions at this time, each driving the people and soldiers and horses that Zhang Jincheng had brought in, and they were wandering around. Zhang Jin said that the tens of thousands of elites with him had been thrown off by Dou Jiande at this time, and he couldn't catch up.
On the chaotic battlefield, suddenly one after another horns sounded, long and loud. The sound of this trumpet and the usual military order horn did not stop, long and short, as if to be in contact. Sure enough, after a while, on the battlefield, there were suddenly echoing horns from everywhere.
Sun Anzu's old department, Sun Anlin, Li Du, Liu Badao's old department, Geqian, Li Deyi and others have rebelled with their henchmen. They took out strips of red cloth from their bosoms and tied them to their foreheads. On the battlefield, the red turban appeared.
One moment they were brothers in the same camp, but the next moment, they immediately faced each other with steel swords and spears against each other.
The sudden turn of events made the battlefield even more chaotic, and the gloomy sky was even darker.
Dou Jiande had already regathered most of the men, joined forces, turned the direction, and ran towards Zhang Jincheng to fight back.
Zhang Jin said that his eyes were all red when he wielded his mace, and the blood stains on his body made people look like Shura.
As soon as he blocked Dou Jiande's offensive, Ge Qian led his troops to arrive again, and Li Deyi, Sun Anlin, Li Du and others were killed one after another. Zhang Jin said that he could no longer stop it, and began to fight to the death to fight a bloody way, preparing to escape. This is the reason why he can survive many years of bloody battles, he has a pair of very sharp eyes, once the battlefield situation is unfavorable and there is no way to return to the sky, he will never hesitate, he will run away immediately. …,
He always thought that the green mountains he stayed behind were not afraid of no firewood. Blindly fighting hard is not a good result.
After leaving the inner army to break off, Zhang Jin said that he took seven or eight thousand personal guard cavalry to rush all the way, preparing to flee south.
On the south bank of the canal in the afternoon, it was dark and low.
In the midst of the sound of fighting in the sky, there was suddenly a muffled thunder from the south.
The earth shook slightly, and a black line soon appeared on the horizon in the south, and the rumbling sound became clearer and clearer, but it was Dou Hongxian who received the signal and led the three thousand cavalry hidden in the south to kill.
Zhang Jin said that although there were still seven or eight thousand cavalry at this time, from the early morning to the afternoon, the people were tired and tired, and the soldiers were terrified, and they had already lost their morale. Seeing that he had not yet gotten rid of the pursuers behind, another fresh cavalry was killed in front, and his face was like ashes.
Dou Hongxian is no longer the outfit of the scout soldier today, she is wearing a conspicuous white bright light battle armor, a bright silver spear in her hand, and the fiery red spear on the head of the spear is so conspicuous, just like her delicate red lips.
Straddled on the tall white horse, holding the silver gun in her hand tightly, her eyes were not only not half of the fear of the first point of battle, but also full of excitement and high fighting spirit.
The two cavalry collided in an instant, like two waves slapping together, rising into the sky, and then falling back in an instant. Countless horses neighed and fell to the ground, and more cavalry fell. Although Dou Hongxian and Zhang Jincheng's cavalry were the most elite of the two rebel armies, they were only peasant armies. Although these were called cavalry, they were just a group of peasants on horseback.
Not only did they not have the full training of the cavalry, but they also did not have the complete armor of the cavalry. Even those war horses, many of them are just numas, and they don't even have complete horse harnesses, let alone the armor and shields that they are equipped with.
One after another, the knights were easily pierced into the opponent's unprotected body by the impact of the war horse, and those weak and unskilled cavalry would fall off the horse and be trampled into mud by the horse's hooves in an instant.
Participate in the war, a truly tragic battle. With just one hedge, countless cavalry fell.
Dou Hongxian waved the silver gun in his hand. Left and right stabs, under the protection of several personal soldiers, the first battle of the hedge stabbed down two enemies. The two warring sides rushed by, and Zhang Jin's more than 7,000 cavalry suddenly left only more than 6,000 people.
Before he could retract the array, Dou Jiande arrived quickly with soldiers and horses.
"Archer, shoot" Dou Jiande gave an order, and countless bows and arrows flew towards Zhang Jincheng's cavalry with a whistling sound.
Dou Hongxian reversed his direction, joined forces with his father and uncles, and chased after Zhang Jincheng. The two sides chase me and flee, and chase and fight. Zhang Jin claimed that there were more cavalry than Dou Jiande's, but he had lost his courage and did not dare to turn back to fight. fled south blindly with his men and horses, Dou Jiande chased after him and kept killing Zhang Jincheng's men and horses.
From the afternoon, the pursuit to the evening, Zhang Jinshu rushed to Dongguang City with the remnants of the defeated army. But let them call the city, but the gates of the city were closed at this time, and they refused to open it. Zhang Jin said that he knew that the guards of Dongguang City were Liu Badao's old subordinates. On the battlefield today, Liu Badao and Sun Anzu were in rebellion, and he couldn't see that they must have colluded with Dou Jiande in advance. At this time, seeing that the city was not open, he immediately understood that this person must have voted for Dou Jiande.
He didn't dare to stay longer, so he continued to rush south with his men and horses. At midnight, he finally arrived at Husu City, and he had just arrived at the city, but the people in the city immediately ordered the city gate to be opened. The defender of this city is Zhang Jin, who said that he was an old subordinate in Shandong in the past, and he no longer doubted it, so he hurriedly entered the city with more than 5,000 remnants. One day of the battle, and another night of escape, all the soldiers were already tired and hungry, and rushed into the city.
Unexpectedly, he had just entered the city, but the city gate behind him suddenly closed, and a bang sounded, and I don't know how many bowstrings sounded in the darkness around. The dense feather arrows shot Zhang Jincheng and other soldiers who had just relaxed their guard down from their horses one after another, and the screams continued to sound for a while.
Zhang Jin said that he kept waving his mace and waved the grid, but when he saw the firelight, a little white light suddenly rushed to his face, and he didn't dodge for a while, and he hit the left eye, and immediately stained his face with blood, and fell off the horse. In the distance, Dou Hongxian smiled and put away the soft bow, and the corners of his mouth flashed a hint of pride. Although they had been chasing after Zhang Jincheng before, but it happened that a few days ago when she detoured here from the north, she knew that there was a shortcut from Dongguang City to Husu City, just now they took the trail to reach Husu first, pretending to be Zhang Jincheng's soldiers and horses to deceive the city, killing a small number of soldiers and horses left in the city, and setting up an ambush plan to lure Zhang Jincheng into the city and annihilate him in one fell swoop.
In the dark night, a restaurant in the east of Husu City, a window on the third floor opened, and a carrier pigeon flew into the air while the night was .......