Chapter 32: The Choice
Dong Shouye saw that the morale of the Huangfu Song army was low and there was a tendency to collapse, and he felt that the time was ripe at the moment, so he no longer hesitated, and immediately ordered: "The whole army can attack, fight with all their might, and capture the Huangfu Song alive, the official will be promoted to the third level, and the reward will be 100,000 yuan." ”
He also instructed the generals under his command to pay attention to the prisoners and not to kill them on a large scale.
So the whole army shouted: "Those who surrender will not be killed, and the prisoners will be treated preferentially!" "Charge forward.
Now the morale of the Huangfu Song army is low, and the army under his command has been fighting since the early morning, and the battle to dusk has been almost a day without food or drink, and they are so hungry that they are close to the back. At present, the Huangfu Song camp has been lost, and his nephew Huangfu Li has been captured by the Xiliang army, his invincible aura is no longer there, and the soldiers are extremely disappointed in him, and all of them are confidence collapsed.
At this time, wanting to regain the soldiers' belief in victory is tantamount to a fool's dream, and Huangfu Song can no longer turn the tide.
Although Huangfu Song is a generation of famous generals, he is a man after all, not a god.
A burst of passionate drums came, and the horn of the Xiliang Army's general attack had already sounded.
I saw that the generals under Dong Shouye's command, under the command of Dong Shouye, each led the men and horses of their headquarters and charged towards the circle array laid by Huangfu Song. Constantly approaching the circle formation, constantly strangling the enemy soldiers who were close to their own troops, constantly narrowing the battle circle, and approaching Huangfu Song in the center of the circle little by little.
Huangfu Song is not a person who submits defeat lightly, leading the men and horses to rush left and right, trying to fight a bloody way, but the conflict cannot be achieved, and when he was close to success several times, he was intercepted by the soldiers and horses under Dong Shouye.
Seeing this, Huangfu Song held on and waited for the opportunity.
Dong Shouye is now in a comfortable mood, seeing that he is about to win a big victory, and the gloomy mood caused by his father's tragic death has been slightly alleviated recently.
Sometimes people need to vent when they are depressed, and this is the case with Dong Shouye in front of him.
I saw that he led a team of cavalry, under the escort of his second brother Zhang Liao, to rush back and forth in Huangfu Song's military formation, directly killing the formation of the circle and directly cutting through Huang Fu Song's troops.
A spear in his hand is unpredictable, erratic, like thunder, fast as lightning, the spear pierces directly through the throat of the enemy, never stabs the second place, kills extremely fast, kills extremely efficiently, never wastes a trace of strength, never delays a little time.
It looks like an invincible god of war, and no one dares to face its edge.
The enemy soldiers were frightened by the murderous aura he exuded, and when they saw him, they fled.
After Dong Shouye rushed to kill for a while, he got a little vent, and his mood calmed down a lot. said hello to Zhang Liao, left the battle formation, and returned to the rear to command the battle, while also waiting for the results of this battle.
Dong Shouye, as the actual commander of the war, as long as the victory of the war is his greatest credit, so his battle is just a whim to improve the morale of the soldiers.
Zhang Liao is a general, and the demand for military merits is extremely strong, after Dong Shouye left the battle formation that was fighting, Zhang Liao still led his soldiers and horses to rush and kill in the military formation. To say that Zhang Liao has always been Dong Shouye's deputy in this battle, and the credit for defeating him in this battle is not small, but who would think that he has more achievements in his hands?
The soldiers of the whole army saw that the main general Dong Shouye personally rushed forward to kill, the morale was great, and the fighting spirit was even more bursting, and they all went out to try their best to strive for the merits of the war, you must know that the Xiliang army of Dong Shouye participated in the war of nearly 70,000 people, and there were only 30,000 people under the command of Huangfu Song, that is to say, this is a situation where there are more wolves and less meat, if you start slowly, the merits will be snatched away by others.
Achievements in war need to be won and grabbed.
For troops whose morale was constantly broken, it was very easy for the cavalry to strangle.
The current Huangfu Song can't organize any effective counterattack at all, and now this victorious general also tastes the feeling of defeat.
Of course, the importance of the henchmen can also be seen from here, if the army under Huangfu Song is not his patchwork army but his henchmen, then it will not be so easy for Dong Shouye to win, and the possibility of Huangfu Song breaking through is extremely great.
But this qiē has already happened, and if there is no if, defeat is defeat.
After the officers and soldiers under Dong Shouye killed the enemy formation several times, most of the enemy soldiers died and surrendered, and the shape of the battlefield became clearer and clearer.
At present, there are only some henchmen and soldiers who are still following Huang Fu Song's side and resisting stubbornly, although these people are loyal to Huang Fu Song and repay them with death, but after all, the number is too small to affect the battle situation.
The battle situation has shown a one-sided trend, most of the men and horses under the command of Huangfu Song are dead or surrendering, and the battlefield is full of prisoners of war who have laid down their arms and surrendered, squatting on the ground with their heads in their hands, and the corpses of those who died on the battlefield can be seen everywhere, and there are fewer and fewer soldiers following Huang Fu Song's side.
The army under Dong Shouye gradually surrounded the center, strangling the die-hard forces around Huangfu Song little by little.
These people are all henchmen who have been following Huang Fu Song for many years, and they are his private army, and even when he first came into contact with Huang Fu Song's military power, he did not take back these private armies.
Of course, with the chaos of the situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the discipline of the private army was extremely high. Like Yuan Shao's Ju Yi, who led his private army; The troops led by Li Dian under Cao Cao were also his family's private army; The generals under Sun Quan have basically been generals for generations, and they all lead private armies.
The private army is like a person's private property, sacrosanct, even Dong Zhuo has no reason to take back Huangfu Song's private army. Of course, the number of Huangfu Song's private army is relatively small, and it cannot affect the overall situation. The most powerful person in the private army is Dong Shouye's father Dong Zhuo, like Dong Zhuo's private army, the number of grizzly bears once reached 50,000, which can be said to be the leader in the world, the only one.
The part of the private army that followed Huangfu Song's side can be said to be extremely experienced in combat and extremely strong in combat. But with the strangulation of Dong Shouye's army, its number is also decreasing.
Although the troops around Huangfu Song are very elite, the soldiers under Dong Shouye are not bad, and those who participated in the battle were either the elite grizzly army of Xiliang or the elite remnants of the imperial court, the Xiyuan army, which would not be worse than Huangfu Song's private army. Moreover, these two armies are formed armies, and they participate in large-scale formed battles, which are not comparable to the small elite troops of Huangfu Song, the former participate in regular battles, while the latter can only exist as a personal guard force and do some work to protect the commander.
At this time, there were only two ways to present in front of Huangfu Song and his private army, either to be captured and surrendered; Either you fight until you die.
Which of the two choice questions do you choose?