Chapter 292: The Battle of the Boundary Bridge
White Horse Yicong is the most elite army of Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Chan has a good appearance and a big voice, a typical rich and handsome, and likes to ride a white horse, with a good demeanor, and is nicknamed "General White Horse". There are many horses in the north, and Gongsun Chan chose more than 5,000 white horses to arm his personal guards, and he was called a white horse. Because of the equipment of the saddle stirrup invented by Liu Ze, the combat effectiveness of Baima Yicong has been significantly improved to a higher level, and when fighting against the Yi tribes such as Xianbei and Wuhuan, he is invincible. After eating a lot of defeats, the Hu people also learned to be well-behaved, the grassland is very big, and they will flee if they can't fight, so when they see the shadow of the white horse cavalry, they will flee from the wind. The white horse became more and more arrogant.
In this southern expedition to Yuan Shao, Yan Gang was appointed as the vanguard by Gongsun Zhan, and it was the five thousand white horse righteous servants who commanded him. Yan Gang is Gongsun Zhan's confidant and favorite general, and was appointed by Gongsun Chan as the assassin of Jizhou. However, it is obvious that this Jizhou assassin history is in name only, after all, the current Jizhou Mu is still Yuan Shao, who controls most of the counties in Jizhou. However, Yan Gang is still very excited about this empty title, won't he be able to justifiably do Jizhou assassination history if he wins Jizhou? Therefore, Yan Gang worked extremely hard, commanding five thousand Bai Yi to crush over towards the position of the Yuan army.
The Yuan army sent Lu Yi to meet the battle, and led 3,000 foot soldiers to intercept Yan Gang.
Yan Gang looked at the 3,000 infantry soldiers of the Yuan army, the old and weak, and the mixed army, and couldn't help but secretly sneer, rode out, pointed forward with a big knife, and said proudly: "Whoever comes, the name will be killed!" ”
Lu Yi sent his deputy general to fight, but before the battle was three, he was beheaded by Yan Gang under the horse. As soon as Lu Yi saw that the situation was not good, he turned his horse and left, and the three thousand Yuan soldiers saw that the main general had fled. They all panicked, made a mess, and turned around and fled with Lu Yi.
"A bunch of rats!" Yan Gang glanced at it contemptuously and ordered Bai Ma Yi to rush through the whole army and pursue and kill Yuan Bing.
Five thousand white horses galloped, the scene was extremely spectacular, just like the white clouds rolling, the snow covered the Liaoyuan, like a white torrent, a thousand miles. The three thousand Yuan soldiers were not just foot soldiers. There is also a mixture of the old and the weak. These two legs can't outrun four legs anyway, it's just a few breaths, and Bai Ma Yicong's front has already caught up with Yuan Jun's rear team, and the sharp spear instantly pierced the back of Yuan Bing's heart who was fleeing. The screams of dying were drowned out by the rumbling hooves of horses.
This is definitely a one-sided massacre without any suspense. The fleeing Yuan soldiers were simply unable to organize an effective resistance. Let the white horse gallop vertically and horizontally, rush left and right, and rush back and forth. However, along the way, Yuan's army had too many defeated soldiers. The road was almost blocked, and the young, strong, and healthy had escaped several miles away, and the old and frail naturally lagged behind.
The Yuan soldiers in front of them were in a mess, and the speed of Bai Ma Yicong naturally couldn't be raised, and the remnants of the Yuan army that were blocking the road had to be killed before they could advance.
Yan Gang saw Lu Yi, who had fled far away, and suddenly understood that Lu Yi obviously intended to arrange these old and weak soldiers in the back, and use the human wall to contain Bai Ma Yi's sharp offensive, so they fled calmly. Yan Gang scolded secretly: "Despicable! "What's the use of killing a bunch of old and weak soldiers, only by capturing and killing the opponent's general can it be regarded as a record. Yan Gang was eager to make meritorious contributions, and urgently ordered Bai Ma Yi not to be entangled with the remnants of the army, and quickly fought a bloody way to pursue Lu Yi.
Bai Ma Yi stepped on Yuan Bing's corpse and pursued in the direction of Lu Yi's escape.
Yan Gang took the lead, seeing that Lu Yi was only a stone's throw away from him, he was overjoyed, so that Bai Ma Yi never cared about horsepower and launched a fatal blow.
Patronizing the pursuit, the hot-headed Yan Gang made a fatal mistake at this time, he didn't notice the changes in the terrain on both sides at all. When the previous battle with the Yuan army, it was a fertile plain, and at this time it entered the hilly area, with a high ground on the left and right, the jungle was dense, only the middle was a flat depression, this depression was triangular, the initial width was 100 zhang, and it gradually narrowed, and it was only tens of zhang wide at the back.
There were no more than a few dozen soldiers around Lu Yi, but he grabbed the reins at this time, glanced back at Yan Gang, who was gradually approaching, and laughed coldly.
"Thief, where are you still fleeing?" Yan Gang saw that Lu Yi stopped the horse, he was overjoyed, and shouted from afar.
Lu Yi did not answer, waved his hand, eight hundred archers who were lying in wait here shouted, rushed out, at this time the white horse Yicong, also entered the range of the archers, Lu Yi gave an order, eight hundred arrows were fired together, the arrows were like flying locusts, and the white horse Yi shot towards the front team. Rushing at the front of the white horse, Yi was caught off guard, and was hit by arrows one after another, even people and horses, and fell to the ground.
Yan Gang was shocked, and secretly screamed badly, he didn't expect Yuan Jun to set up an ambush here. However, Yan Gang has also been in battle for a long time, although he was ambushed, he did not panic, and the archers who were hiding on the other side were only a few hundred, and he had 5,000 elite horsemen. Now the distance is only a stone's throw away, and the impact of his own cavalry is only a few dozen breaths of time, even if the enemy archers are fast, at best they can only shoot two or three arrows, as long as they pay a little less casualty price, the white horse can rush into the position of the archers, and once the short arms meet, the archers have no use, and they have completely become lambs to the slaughter.
"Rush!" Yan Gang raised his broadsword and hissed as he gave the order to attack.
Bai Mayi had never had time to attack, but he heard rumbling drums on the left and right, killing voices everywhere, and ambushes came out. It turned out that the Yuan army had laid down a thousand archers on each of these two heights, and when Bai Ma Yi entered the encirclement, thousands of arrows poured into Bai Ma Yicong's position like a torrential rain.
The cavalry has a shield and has a certain protection against the arrow attacks in the front, which is also the reason why Yan Gang dared to launch a surprise attack on the front of Lu Yi, but he was unable to protect against the blow on the side.
The Yuan army shot to the right and the right, plus the eight hundred crossbowmen of Lu Yi, almost formed a net of arrows, striking from three sides, trapping Bai Ma Yi in this depression. Rows of arrows rained over, countless white horses fell off their horses, and many white horses were also shot by random arrows, neighing in pain, scurrying around, and the whole team became a pot of porridge, but Yuan's arrows never stopped for half a moment, cruelly plundering the lives of white horses and cavalry.
The dense rain of arrows lasted only a quarter of an hour, and the arrogant White Horse Yicong had been completely destroyed, and the entire narrow depression was like a bath of blood, lying strewn with the corpses of men and horses, and almost every corpse was filled with arrows.
Although Yan Gang was hit by two arrows in his back and right arm, he still fought his way out of the guards of his own soldiers and rushed north. Lu Yi was willing to let him escape, and led his troops to pursue him closely. Yan Gang people are sleepy and lacking horses, seeing that the chasing soldiers are coming, only sighing that there is no way to enter the sky and no way to enter the ground, a group of people and horses suddenly killed, and beat the banner of Liu Taishou in the plain, the current general, silver armor and white robe, white horse and silver gun, but it is Changshan Zhao Zilong.
There were few soldiers and did not dare to engage them, so they retreated.
Yan Gang was overjoyed and asked in surprise: "Thank you for the general's life-saving grace, dare to ask what the general is called?" ”
Zhao Yun said: "A certain is under the command of Liu Taishou of the Plains, and Zhao Yun of Changshan is also." ”
"Mrs. Liu is here?"
"A certain is the front, and my lord will come later."
Yan Gang gathered the remnants, 5,000 white horse Yicong casualties, only more than 100 horsemen left, couldn't help but sigh, Baima Yicong is Gongsun Zhan's personal guard troops, but also the most elite journey under Gongsun Zhan, I didn't think that the whole army was wiped out in this battle, Yan Gang didn't know how to treat the main bus.
After Liu Ze arrived, he met Yan Gang, who was ashamed and embarrassed. Liu Ze said a few words of relief, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and instructed the medical officer to treat Yan Gang's injuries. Then he ordered the scouts to listen to the military situation ahead.
Soon, the scouts brought up the latest military information. In addition to ordering Yan Gang to lead Bai Ma Yi to attack the Yuan army from the front, Gongsun Zhan erected more than ten pontoon bridges on the Pan River, preparing to personally lead the main force back to the flank and rear flank of the Yuan army to outflank the Yuan army.
But Yuan Shao is not a wine bag and a rice bag, and his subordinates are even more famous generals, who saw through Gongsun Zhan's strategy early, and when Gongsun Zhan's army was halfway crossed, he suddenly launched an attack. Gongsun Chan was caught off guard and suffered heavy losses. Yuan Jun took the opportunity to cross the river and wantonly covered up the killing, and Gongsun Zhan was defeated and left.
Zhigong Sun Zhan's situation was critical, and Liu Ze urgently ordered Zhao Yun to lead 3,000 archers and cavalry to rush to help, and then the pro-unified army then marched.
After Zhao Yun received the order, he walked north non-stop. When I just arrived in Shangyang Town, I bumped into a white horse general with a cloak and a slanted robe, covered in blood, and a wolf! There were only a few attendants around him, all of whom were wounded.
"General Gongsun in front?" Zhao Yun asked from afar.
When the white horse general saw a group of men and horses blocking the way, he didn't know whether he was friend or foe, and he didn't dare to answer, but asked, "Who are you?" ”
Zhao Yun arched his hand and said: "In the lower plain, Liu Ze's subordinates came to rescue General Ying Gongsun on the order of Liu Taishou." ”
General Baima was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "It turned out to be a subordinate of Runde's virtuous brother, and it was Gongsun Zhan." As he was talking, the dust and smoke were billowing behind him, and the chasing soldiers had arrived, and Gongsun Chan was shocked.
Zhao Yun held the silver spear tightly, blocked in front of Gongsun Zhan, and said, "General Gongsun will rest less, Zhao will chase the soldiers when he comes." ”
"The person who led the troops of the Yuan army is a general Wen Chou, with extraordinary martial arts and unstoppable bravery, General Zhao is careful!" Gongsun Zhan's fame shook the north, but today's battle was a big loss, Fang just fought with Wen Chou, and almost lost his life, thinking about it, I am still a little afraid.
Zhao Yun sneered, and immediately stood at the crossing. (To be continued......)