Chapter 50: The Battle Begins
Zhang Yan's army did not lament the defeat of their commander, how long it was, before the attack of the Wen Chou army arrived, they had already adjusted their mentality, tightened the blade in their hands, and felt the coolness of metal in this hot weather! Make yourself more awake.
Zhang Yan rode his horse, and his soldiers separated a gap to make it enter the formation, and before the following Wen Chou arrived, the gap had already been closed. made Wen Chou see Zhang Yan entering the battle, and he could only cry out in vain! Of course, Wen Chou's arrival is a disaster for his soldiers! Even though they have a lot of manpower, the soldiers behind Wen Chou are about to keep up, and they have to be distracted to guard against it.
Wen Chou saw the series of reactions of Zhang Yan's soldiers after Zhang Yan's injury and retreat, all of which were orderly and without panic! I shouted in my heart: "This is the real elite soldier!" Compared with the peach forest elite soldiers that he has worked hard to build for more than a year, another soldier of a hundred battles is not inferior! ”
This kind of soldier is also the first time he has seen it except for his own soldiers. If you want to come to the Central Army of the Empire, you won't be smarter than this! However, Zhang Yan is only such an elite soldier, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers in the central army of the empire! In addition, on the border, outside the fortress, there are tens of thousands of soldiers against the enemy! Those soldiers fought against the northern nomads all year round, and they were also real elite soldiers in a hundred battles!
However, whether these soldiers can be commanded by the current court is another story! For example, the soldiers led by Gongsun Chan, Gongsun Chan himself has a lot of autonomy! It can be said that basically, no longer bound by the central order! This is also in the early days of the princes, Gongsun Chan was able to become a great prince second only to Dong Zhuo's forces!
Wen Chou came to the front of Zhang Yan's army, and the spear must be accompanied by the splash of blood! Every shot can take a person's life! However, this is not absolute, and its superiority is immediate, although it has a condescending advantage. But be careful to protect the horse under your crotch from being injured by thieves! This is much more difficult than protecting yourself! Even if it is a master like Wen Chou, he can't completely protect it, he can only shuttle back and forth in front of the thief's array, and he can't stand in front of the horse!
In such a sports battle, Wen Chou's efficiency in killing thieves has been reduced a lot, but his attack range has also expanded a lot. So that the thieves in front of everyone are in danger! However, this situation did not last long, because Zhang Yan at this time was completely submerged in the formation, and there was no crisis that Wen Chou could bring.
At this point, the thieves began to besiege Wen Chou! caused by the spear, so that Wen Chou also has to avoid its edge! This is the combat power they should have! Even if it is a powerful general with high combat power like Wen Chou, he still can't face each other head-on! If Wen Chou dares to pursue it insistently, they don't care about leaving Wen Chou in the formation forever!
Seeing this, Wen Chou had no choice but to be outside Zhang Yan's elite soldiers. Wander non-stop, and if you have the chance, kill it! But I will never dare to do anything to go deep into the thief formation! These thieves are not comparable to the soldiers of Li Damu's battalion that day! This is a fierce soldier who can keep him in the formation!
During Wen Chou's wandering, Zhang Yanju's orders in the formation changed again, but he wanted to make the cavalry in his formation, which was no more than 100 cavalry, with the assistance of foot soldiers, pikemen, archers, etc., besiege Wen Chou! The worst of them must be driven away!
Although this cavalry is not many in number, they are all well-equipped, and they are even better than their own cavalry, which Wen Chou has always been proud of! Fang Cai Zhang Yan did not send him out in a hurry to intercept Wen Chou. But after stabilizing the battle situation, he calmly commanded it! It can be seen. Zhang Yan's degree of importance, cherishment and dependence on this hundred horses! Compared with the use of the ugly rider to destroy thieves and fight criminals, it is even more important!
When this team of cavalry was dispatched, Wen Chou felt a kind of bloody and ruthless rushing to his face! This is the characteristic of the same kind of people that can only be felt by those who have been in the battlefield for a long time! Moreover, between their actions, every move is so neat and uniform, but they can't find any traces in a trance! All this really shows how unusual this cavalry is! I don't know how many enemy troops they killed!
Wen Chou's eyes narrowed slightly. I was shocked in my heart, this kind of cavalry, as long as I can train seven or eight hundred horsemen, I don't say anything big about galloping the Central Plains, but in this field battle in Changshan. I don't think there is any opponent! The famous 'trapped camp' in history is nothing more than that!
However, he also knew that such elite soldiers could not be trained for a while, that is, Zhang Yan had millions of followers in the past three or four years, and only then did he select and create these more than 100 horses! And he has only been rising for a year, and he is only 100,000 people, how can there be so many people for him to choose from? So there's so much money for him to build?! And there's no time for that!
As soon as this group of cavalry was dispatched, Zhang Yan's army formation immediately changed, and in an instant, the array of guns and shields, and the accuracy of bows and arrows had been placed! It is the most basic and powerful military formation! Such a formation has strong adaptability, not only a good formation for dealing with cavalry, but also for dealing with ordinary infantry! Therefore, this formation is also a formation that all military personnel must be familiar with!
Wen Chou saw that the cooperation of these two thousand people was so seamless, and with the current power of his own body, it was incomprehensible! I can't help frowning at the moment! Is it possible to retreat like this?! Not to mention meritorious service, but there is no real contact yet! He is unwilling! But in the face of such an enemy, even if he is unwilling, he is helpless! After wandering around the periphery again, after seeing that there were no flaws, before the arrival of the thief cavalry, he resolutely withdrew!
Wen Chou's retreat made the originally excited county guards suddenly splash a basin of cold water! And it recedes like a tide! Some of the faster ones have already fought with Zhang Yanzhi's elite! However, after just producing some blood flowers, he fell into the army of thieves! No more information!
Those county guards who were still a little suspicious felt how correct Wen Chou's judgment was, and they ran away like they were desperate! As for the 'guerrilla warfare method' that Wen Chou said before the battle began, I don't know how many county soldiers there are now, but I still remember it in my heart! However, by mistake, the first step was completed, and they all scattered and fled! Although it is possible to become the target of the thief's ride, it is also a helpless move!
However, whether Zhang Yan's cavalry will scatter and go to kill the scattered county guards brought by Wen Chou is another story. For nothing else, just because of the importance they attach to these cavalry, they will not fall into even the slightest element of 'unknowability'!
And the unknowable factor at the moment is that the soldiers led by Wen Chou and his people, although they are not as elite as their own soldiers, they are not without the strength of a battle! Then why did he choose to retreat without a fight?! And it's not an ordinary retreat, but it's like a 'rout'! Would Zhang Yan believe that the more elite soldiers trained and built by such a character as Wen Chou would flee without a fight?! There must be something greasy in this! As for what kind of cat it is, he can't figure it out.
This is Wen Chou, what kind of conspiracy and tricks can't be done?! However, there are not enough troops to support it, and no kind of conspiracy and trickery will be ineffective! And according to Fang Cai's report on the exploration of horses, there are indeed no other soldiers around Wen Chouzhi! Could it be that the probe horse is not careful enough?! In the face of such an abnormal phenomenon, he was a little skeptical about the ability of his elite soldiers!
However, as he thought, without the support of the army, no amount of conspiracy and intrigue would cause great damage to him! Why don't you concentrate your forces and destroy the soldiers of Wen Chou one by one! Do it when you think of it! Zhang Yan immediately ordered that the two thousand soldiers were divided into four parts, all of which were five hundred, with all the troops, and they cooperated with each other to pursue the enemy army in four directions and annihilate it! The army of five hundred is exactly the number of troops led by Wen Chou! In Zhang Yan's thoughts, there are five hundred people, and it is enough to pursue Wen Chou's scattered soldiers!
It can be said that Zhang Yan's decision is undoubtedly correct! But not the best! If only he could unleash his courage and order the army to disperse and pursue him! It will definitely be able to annihilate all the soldiers led by Wen Chou! But with his cautious personality and the degree of cherishing this army, it was determined that he could not be so 'bold'! But even so, the army of Wen Chou will suffer huge losses! If you're unlucky, it's still possible to wipe them all out! But he can also fight back a little against Zhang Yan's soldiers while being pursued!
Seeing that Zhang Yan was acting so cautiously, Wen Chou had no choice but to hope that the reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible! In the face of four times his own elite soldiers, even Wen Chou is helpless! This is the only way he can try to gather the first part of the county soldiers to return, and then a team of soldiers divided by Zhang Yan! Since Zhang Yan chose to divide and attack, then Wen Chou must also have corresponding changes!
There are not too many county soldiers that can be gathered, only more than 100, less than 200! Compared to the number of five hundred soldiers of Zhang Yan, there is still a big disadvantage! But I don't want to be so obvious forward! At this time, Wen Chou dared to fight for his life!
The battle of seven or eight hundred people was far less than the battle between Lu Liang and Guo Daxian in the south! But the intensity and tragedy of the battle of these seven or eight hundred people were even worse than that of Lu Liang and them! The reason why the elite can be called the elite is that their combat power is superb, the armor is excellent, and the heart is indifferent! All of them are characters who kill without blinking!
Under the leadership of Wen Chou, these nearly 200 county guards successfully caught Zhang Yan's 500 soldiers! And it's hard to tell the difference! (To be continued......)