Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Trap
The darkness of dawn faded, a light appeared on the east side of the sky, and the real battle had just begun.
The focus of Dong Zhuo's attack this time was on Zhang Liao's battalion, and the 30,000 cavalry sent out of Guguan, and 15,000 were invested in the battlefield east of Xin'an, which was almost equal to the strength of Zhang Liao and Biqiu Yi.
The only difference is that most of Zhang Liao's subordinates are recruits, but Dong Zhuo's attacks are all elite soldiers in a hundred battles, the most elite Huangzhong Yicong, Qianghu soldiers, and state soldiers!
10,000 foot soldiers, 5,000 cavalry, 5,000 people as meat shield cannon fodder, in the military array, one side of the "Zhonglang General Hu" big move, it is Dong Zhuo's most trusted Zhonglang General Hu Zhen.
In order to deal with Zhang Liao and King Shenwu, Dong Zhuo invested a lot of money this time.
The camp set up by Zhang Liao and Ji Ping is 800 steps wide in the north and south, there are four gates in the east, west, north and south, leaning on the Yellow River and the north side of the mountain, and the camp is full of traps all around the inside and outside.
Zhang Liaozhong's army defended the frontal front, Duan Xuan defended the left front, and Guan Yu and Zhang Fei defended the right front.
The battle has been killed for nearly half an hour, and there have been casualties on both sides, with the help of the fortifications and traps in the early stage, Ji Ping is better than Dong Zhuo's Qianghu soldiers, but these Qianghu soldiers are extremely fierce, attacking frantically in waves, and fighting to the death.
Ji Ping was in the Chinese army and did not charge, although he was extremely angry at the atrocities of Dong Zhuo and Qiang Hubing, but this time was by no means the time to be impulsive, he was the real commander of this battle, it was a matter of the overall situation, and there could be no sloppiness.
The Chinese army was flanked by military tents, and in front was a buffered battle zone.
On the right front, Liu Bei and Guan Yu were in charge, Biqiu Yi was in charge of the central dispatch, Zhang Fei with five hundred soldiers had already carried out several counter-charges, with the courage of the main general, he killed several Hu Zhen's commanders and low-level generals of the military marquis, causing a lot of confusion and suppression to the enemy soldiers.
This side is not the focus of Hu Zhenbing's attack, and there are two 10,000-strong enemies with experienced Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, Ji Ping is still relatively relieved.
On the left front, Duan Xuan and several of his generals were stationed, and the Hu Zhen side on this side invested more troops than on the right side, but Duan Xuan and his people, who had fought with Duan Cheng many times, were extremely experienced, and with the fortifications, it was difficult for the Qiang Hu soldiers to advance an inch.
The most difficult battle was the frontal front, defended by Zhang Liao, which was the focus of Dong Zhuo's attack, and it was the most elite troops who were invested.
Before dawn, Hu Zhen's army took thousands of people as the front, filled the trap on the outermost part of the front camp, attacked the fence, and released waves of rockets, and the fence and deer fortifications were already full of fireworks.
The Qianghu infantry charged three times in succession, but under the command of Zhang Liao, the spearmen strictly guarded the first line under the cover of the shield soldiers, and the rear line shooters greeted with waves of arrows, leaving the charging Qianghu soldiers with corpses.
In Hu Zhen's army, under the command of "Zhonglang General Hu", Hu Zhen, who had a gloomy and cold face, looked at the vanguard army that had retreated again, and a trace of fierceness flashed in his eyes: "Order the battle camp, whoever retreats, behead!" ”
Seeing that the defense line of the camp fence and the deer fence on the opposite side had been burned to pieces, and more than 800 infantry under his command rushed forward, Hu Zhen showed a sneer on his face and said sharply: "Beat the drums, and order the two cavalry of Li Ye and Zhang Mai to attack!" Li Ye charged, Zhang Mai scattered on the periphery! ”
He said to a few cronies around him: "The soldiers of the Central Plains, living in a rich land, but they are weak, my Liangzhou elite soldiers can break ten, and today I will sacrifice the heads of the king of thieves and Zhang Liao for Xiangguo!" ”
Under the banner of Zhang Liaozhong's army, Ji Ping saw from a distance that there were about 800 more Qiang Hu Bu rushing towards the camp.
Nearly halfway through, the drums on the opposite side resounded loudly.
Ji Ping looked at it, but saw a cloud of smoke and dust rising behind Hu Zhenjun's formation, and there was a faint rumbling sound.
"The other side is going to send cavalry?" Ji Ping's heart was shocked, eight hundred foot soldiers with cavalry, it seems that this time Hu Zhen is going to break through the front camp in one fell swoop!
His face remained unchanged, his eyes narrowed, and he watched the enemy foot soldiers engage with Zhang Liao's front army, unceremoniously, Zhang Liao commanded the archers and another wave of arrow rain poured.
Previously, among the baggage that Dong Zhuo had hoarded in Bi Guiyuan, there were the most arrows, with 100,000 arrows, which was also prepared by Dong Zhuo for his cavalry, but at this time, it was used by Ji Ping on Dong Zhuo.
With the rain of arrows, the Qianghu soldiers continued to fall, but this wave of Qianghu soldiers seemed to be red-eyed, and none of them retreated, more than 600 Qianghu soldiers directly used their guns to pick up the corpses of their dead comrades to block the arrows, charged with arrows, and entered the barracks and fences.
Ji Ping ignored the infantry in front, he believed that Zhang Liao was enough to deal with it, he looked at the two 800 cavalry in the enemy's rear, one left and one right, the left cavalry charged directly, but the cavalry on the right was diagonally copied, obviously preparing one to charge, and the other to scatter vertically and horizontally on the periphery.
The cavalry was very fast, and in the blink of an eye it was already eight hundred paces away.
Ji Ping immediately ordered: "The banner of the Chinese army will not move, and Zhang Liao will be ordered to retreat to the second line of defense!" ”
With the sound of drums and the flag, Zhang Liao began to command the front army to retreat slowly and orderly in an orderly manner, and the first to retreat were the archers, the fastest, bypassing the banner of the Chinese army where Ji Ping was located, and retreating from the middle of the military tents.
Then there were the spearmen and shield soldiers, Zhang Liao led the veterans to the front and fought and retreated, with their cover, and the recruits in the back quickly retreated with the archers.
At this time, the cavalry of the enemy charge had already reached the camp 400 paces away, and the infantry was biting Zhang Liao and fighting hard.
Seeing that Zhang Liaoqian's army retreated, Zhang Mai's cavalry, who was originally preparing to scatter on the periphery, also decisively changed their tactics and charged together with Li Ye's cavalry!
Seeing the eight hundred cavalry charging over together, the momentum was violent, and the ground also rumbled and shook, Ji Ping was expressionless, and said to Yin Muyue beside him: "Order Feiying to prepare for action!" ”
Yin Muyue shouted at the three hundred flying shadows: "Array!" Bolts! ”
Brush! The three hundred flying shadows immediately dispersed and formed a row in front of the tent, and the retreating soldiers continued to retreat through the gap between their rows.
Yin Muyue looked at Ji Ping, gritted her teeth and said, "Son, be careful!" He turned his head and shouted: "Protect your son!" ”
More than 20 flying shadows quickly guarded Ji Ping and Pan Feng, who was holding the banner of the Chinese army, and set up crossbow arrows and shields, surrounding the two of them impenetrable.
By this time, the enemy cavalry had reached a hundred and fifty paces outside the camp.
In front of Ji Ping, the recruits and archers have retreated, Zhang Liao led the veterans and more than 600 Qianghu infantry to fight and retreat, less than 20 steps away from Ji Ping, the two sides killed extremely fiercely, and soldiers continued to fall.
Ji Ping was expressionless, and saw that Zhang Liao had retreated to ten steps, and the hideous face of the Qiang Hu soldiers on the opposite side was already clearly visible, and he directly shouted: "Flying Shadow!" Cover! Dot and shoot! ”
Chirp! Chirp! Chirp!
The Flying Shadow crossbow arrows that had been waiting for a long time came out of the box one after another, and more than a hundred Qianghu soldiers who were chasing Zhang Liao's soldiers fell to the ground, and the Qianghu soldiers couldn't help but stagnate.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Liaoxun retreated, and at the same time, Ji Ping and the banner of the Chinese army retreated.
Feiying greeted another wave of crossbow arrows, the crossbow arrows were too lethal, and the Qianghu soldiers who were in hot pursuit couldn't help but temporarily retreat, ducking to the side, waiting for the cavalry to charge.
At this time, the enemy's two cavalry had already leaped over the broken fence one after the other, entered the camp, shouting and shouting, and picked up their swords one by one, ready to watch the melons and vegetables.
They were only eighty steps away from Ji Ping, and eighty steps was a distance of nearly 100 meters, and with the degree of a war horse, rushing over was just a blink of an eye.
Ji Ping retreated through the military tent, looked back at the cavalry who were running high, and a smile almost cruel appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Feiying, retreat." ”
In the blink of an eye, nearly three hundred flying shadows covering the retreat bypassed the row of military tents and followed, and as soon as they pulled a rope in front of each military tent, the bulging military tents began to fall slowly.
"Woohoo! Kill! Not a single one to stay! Catch the Shenwu King and seal the marquis! The cavalry had already reached thirty steps away from the military tent, and the leading cavalry corps, Sima Li Ye, roared excitedly.
The cavalry was ready to bypass the tent and rush through the gap, but at this time, seeing that the tents were falling, they did not avoid the tent at all and prepared to rush through.
The cavalry fought with momentum, indomitable impact and momentum.
The soft military tents are already vulnerable in their eyes, not to mention that these military tents seem to be falling.
The next moment, the enemy cavalry broke through the tent that had not yet completely fallen.
Under the charge of the cavalry, a row of military tents continued to fall silently and fell into the ground, revealing a trench trap nearly one foot and five feet wide!
Hundreds of cavalry fell, blood pouring out from under the trap.
"Ahh - Whew! ——”
Wails and neighing of horses came from underground.
And behind, there were cavalrymen who couldn't stop their horses, and were surrounded by the cavalry behind, howling in horror, screaming strangely, and continuing to fall.
After the trench, Ji Ping and Zhang Liao led the soldiers without looking back at all and continued to retreat.
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