Chapter 185: The Flying Bear Army is pitted
The flying horse rushed to the city of Baling, and it was naturally Liu He's first confidant Zhao Zilong.
When Zhao Yun led the army to leave Huayin, he received Liu He's order to give Hu Zhen and Duan Xuan a strong courage and rescue Xu Rong to escape by the way, but before he could lead the army from the north to Baling, Hu Zhen had already confessed to it, so he had to act at the opportunity and rushed directly to support Xu Rong.
This rescue of Xu Rong was different from the last time when he attacked Tongguan, although he still took a detour and interspersed methods, but Zhao Yun did not dare to take it lightly.
The last time he attacked the defenders of Tongguan, he had a total of 10,000 main forces on the east and west roads, and he was only facing a small force of 5,000 demoralized troops, but this time Zhao Yun needed to face the 50,000 combined forces of Li Dao and Guo Yan, and even more than 20,000 horses and horses that Hu Zhen had surrendered to in the past, and he could not get strong reinforcements.
Although the task was arduous, Zhao Yun was full of confidence, and he was even ready to fight against the Flying Bear Army, the most elite in the Xiliang Army. Although Li Guo's rebels were numerous, the total number of enemy cavalry was less than 20,000, so as long as they were not surrounded, no one could stop Zhao Yun's way.
The combined army of Li Dao and Guo Yan, who was besieging the city near the north gate of Baling, suddenly found a cavalry galloping, and hurriedly sent some soldiers and horses to intercept it, but was crushed by the cavalry led by Zhao Yun, and directly killed and abandoned their armor, and fled to Li Dao's Chinese army camp in the direction of the east gate.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the remaining rebels outside the north gate hurriedly retreated to the east gate to avoid the charge of Zhao Yun's cavalry.
Li Wei, who was in the Chinese army, learned that a fierce cavalry had come from outside the north gate to reinforce Xu Rong, and thought that a certain general under Lu Bu led the Bingzhou cavalry to arrive, so he ordered his younger brother Li Ying and Li Huan to lead 3,000 flying bear troops and 2,000 ordinary cavalry, a total of 5,000 men and horses, to meet Zhao Yun.
Dong Zhuo's most elite troops consisted of three, one led by his younger brother Dong Min stationed in Yiwu, one led by his son-in-law Niu Fu stationed in Anyi, and one led by Lu Bu to guard Chang'an.
Dong Min and Dong Huang, who guarded Yiwu, were two wastes, and they had been defeated by the veteran Huangfu Song a few days ago, and the Dong clan in Yiwu was also killed by Huangfu Song, so this elite army was also completely wiped out.
The Flying Bear Army defending Anyi is now in the hands of Li Dao, and it is composed of fierce Western Liangqiang soldiers and Hu-Han cavalry, who have done a lot of bad things in Luoyang.
The elite of Chang'an and the state are all the subordinates of Ding Yuan at the beginning, although the number of people is getting smaller and smaller, but the combat power is getting stronger and stronger, and a number of generals who can fight well have emerged under the command of Gao Shun, Zhang Liao, Hou Cheng, Cao Xing, Song Xian, Xue Lan, Hao Yin, Cheng Lian, Wei Xu, Wang He, etc., especially Gao Shun has a trap camp under his command, which is more ferocious than the first camp led by Yuan Shao's Liyi.
Li Dao thought that Lu Bu sent the Bingzhou elite cavalry to meet Xu Rong, so he threw out his biggest hole card, the Flying Bear Army, mainly to make Lu Bu's troops retreat in difficulty and not to stir up trouble again.
Li Ying and Li Huan led the Flying Bear Army to the vicinity of the north gate quickly, and at this time Zhao Yun had already led the army to retreat two miles north, not close to the north wall of Baling, so as to leave enough space for his cavalry to sprint.
Li Ying immediately stepped forward and shouted: "I am the commander Li Ying, who is coming?" Get your name in! ”
Zhao Yun urged the horse forward at the same time, and shouted loudly: "I am asking for the general 'Zhang Xu' under the command of General Yuan Benchu, the leader of the Dong League, and today I will lead the vanguard troops to come to reinforce me!" ”
When Li Ying heard that something was wrong, he raised his eyes to look at the cavalry behind Zhao Yun, and found that he couldn't see Zi Chouyinmao, so he said intimidatingly: "Zhang Xu'er is rampant!" If you don't want to die, lead the army to leave quickly, otherwise today under the city of Baling will be a place where you will be buried! ”
Zhao Yun sneered and said: "Li Yingxiaoer, if you have the courage, you can fight, why bother talking in vain!" ”
Li Ying was immediately furious, immediately turned back to the Chinese army, and commanded the Flying Bear Army to pounce on Zhao Yun.
When Li Ying returned to the command position of the Chinese army, Zhao Yun also urged the war horse to carefully take a strange serpentine route and return to the army. When he saw the Flying Bear Army take the lead in charging, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curve a little towards the sky.
"The whole army obeys the order and retreats two more miles to the north!"
As the Flying Bear Army gradually approached, Zhao Yun suddenly issued a very strange order in front of nearly a thousand soldiers watching the battle at the head of Baling City.
As soon as Zhao Yun's military order was delivered, thousands of cavalry immediately moved and retreated north unhurriedly. It turned out that these neatly lined cavalry, before Li Ying led the army to arrive, had already set up a formation with their horses' heads facing north! In order to confuse the enemy army, Zhao Yun just asked the hundreds of cavalrymen in the front row to rush their horses to the south to block Li Ying's line of sight.
After the army moved, the hundreds of cavalry at the forefront immediately turned their horses and headed towards the two flanks of the team, not giving the pursuing army any chance to attack.
Li Ying saw that "Zhang Xu" actually led the army to escape, and immediately burst with confidence, and ordered the Flying Bear Army to pursue at high speed, and he must give this timid guy a few colors to see.
However, something unimaginable to Li Ying suddenly happened.
The Flying Bear Army, which was running at high speed, suddenly seemed to have a soft foot disease, and fell down one by one from front to back, and the cavalry on the horse was broken by breaking their hands and legs, and the originally sharp and incomparable pursuit formation of the arrow became a pot of porridge in a few breaths.
Without waiting for Li Ying to react, the war horse under his crotch also suddenly slowed down, let out a mournful sound in his mouth, and suddenly fell to the ground softly. The guards around Li Ying were quite alert, and when they saw Li Ying fall off their horses, they hurriedly stopped marching and protected Li Ying, avoiding the fate of him being trampled to death by the follow-up cavalry.
Li Huan, who was in the rear, saw the drastic changes ahead and hurriedly ordered the troops to stop the attack, but it was too late.
After Zhao Yun commanded the troops to retreat north for Erli, he immediately ordered: "Stop marching, change the formation to Bird Xiang, and counterattack!" ”
The 5,000 cavalry marching at a constant speed suddenly separated left and right, spread out towards the two flanks of the team, and then turned around and turned towards the chaotic Flying Bear Army!
What made the Flying Bear Army suffer from soft feet was some inconspicuous gadgets, but because there were too many such gadgets, Zhao Yun took advantage of the time when the Flying Bear Army had not yet arrived, and sprinkled them evenly on the sandy land, so they did not attract Li Ying's attention.
Although Xu Rong, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, was puzzled, he couldn't see it clearly because he was separated by more than a mile. He just saw the cavalry that suddenly came to reinforce him, and after driving away the rebels on the north gate, he didn't even say hello, and retreated north one by one on horseback, Xu Rong thought that these cavalry were in trouble.
Of course, Zhao Yun's soldiers didn't have a stomach, and the cavalry who were lying on horseback at that time were just throwing thistles into the ground.
Xu Rong and Li Ying at the head of the city are not in the same group, even if they find something wrong at that time, they probably won't tell Li Ying about this unlucky guy.
The Youzhou cavalry who completed the formation, no longer the "bear-like" when they retreated, suddenly showed their hideous faces, they lined up in a huge bird formation, and rushed towards the chaotic Flying Bear Army, and when they were almost within the range of the riding bow, the dense arrows fired mercilessly, and immediately shot the Flying Bear Cavalry who rushed to the front.
After two or three rounds of cavalry shooting, the Youzhou cavalry came to the Flying Bear Cavalry, they raised their swords, mercilessly harvesting the heads, and did not care whether the enemy was on a horse or lying on the ground.
Li Huan, who was in the rear army, watched the front army that rushed out of the thistle terrestris area being ruthlessly slaughtered, but it was too late to rescue. At this time, if he led his army around the left and right sides of the thistle belt, and when he arrived in front, he would just meet the opponent's bird flying array, and the people would only need to greet him with bows and arrows, and his own side would suffer heavy casualties and annihilation.
After Zhao Yun commanded the troops to pack up the soldiers and horses of the Flying Bear Army that had mistakenly broken into the Iron Tribulus Formation, he did not command the troops to continue the attack, but grabbed Li Ying, who was wounded by the shot, and retreated two miles north again, and then stopped the troops and waited for Li Wei to send someone to rescue Li Ying.
Although the people in the Iron Tribulus Formation Pit are good, they are not distinguishable from friend or foe, and they need to be used unexpectedly, Zhao Yun didn't want his cavalry to be dizzy because of killing the enemy, and as a result, he crashed into the pit dug by his own people.
If he were another general, he might have a bloody peak duel with the famous Flying Bear Army in the northwest today, so as to achieve his own prestige, but Zhao Yun didn't do this, but adopted this somewhat reliant tactic.
Although Zhao Yun was only twenty-five years old, he was calm and meticulous and terrifying, he didn't care about the so-called false names, he only cared about the casualties of the soldiers under his command. Zhao Yun understood that when he came to Chang'an this time, Gongzi only brought 10,000 cavalry, and he could not get any backup and supplement, if he was not careful and cautious, the further back he went, the more dangerous it would be.
In the two battles he had just experienced, Zhao Yun tried his best to control the rhythm and intensity of the battles, and controlled the proportion of casualties among the soldiers to a negligible level. Despite this, when the casualties were counted, more than a hundred soldiers were killed and more than 300 were wounded.
The casualties of these hundreds of soldiers already made Zhao Yun feel distressed.
Xu Rong at the head of the city saw the strange battle that had just taken place clearly, and he already understood why these cavalry who rushed to reinforce just now would suddenly retreat north after the successful raid, and he probably guessed what these cavalry leaned over and sprinkled on their horses when they moved north.
Even if Xu Rong has experienced a hundred battles, it is the first time he has seen this kind of "shameless" tactic, and he has been completely shocked. It is said that insiders watch the doorway, Xu Rong knows that if the support army outside the city has not undergone strict training, it will definitely not be able to be so orderly when pretending to be defeated and retreating, let alone so smooth and natural when changing formations and directions.
The generals who command and command this cavalry are definitely not simple!
The Flying Bear Army suffered heavy losses in the first battle, the main general Li Ying was captured, and the troops of "Yuan Shao's Pioneer" suffered little damage......
When this incredible military situation was urgently sent back to Li Wei's big tent by Li Huan, even Jia Xu, who had always been calm, showed surprise.
It is already incredible that the Flying Bear Army can be hit hard, and Li Ying's capture makes Li Dao feel hot on his face, and what is even more bizarre is that the enemy army has suffered little damage, and there is a sentence "Yuan Shao's vanguard troops" behind it!
Is this Nima's a god horse situation? If Yuan Shao's army is so ferocious, when he leads the main force to come, the brothers will still be playing hairy! Hurry up and roll up the cover and go back to Xiliang's hometown to farm.
It was still Jia Xu who was thoughtful, and after his initial surprise, he immediately said: "Yuan Shaoyuan is in Yecheng, Jizhou, and was hit hard in Gaoyi some time ago, and his troops in Bingzhou are not sufficient, so when there is no spare strength to send troops to reinforcements at this time, there is a big problem with the origin of this cavalry!" ”
Li Dao was also a resourceful person, nodded and said, "What Mr. Wenhe said is reasonable, or this army is just a bluff." I'll send someone to find out what the other party wants. ”
Immediately, Li Wei sent a henchman with only a dozen people to Zhao Yun's array, asking for the redemption of Li Ying and hundreds of Flying Bear Army soldiers who were captured by Zhao Yun.
Zhao Yun put forward the condition, if he wanted Li Ying and the Flying Bear Army to live and live, he must immediately stop the attack on Baling City, otherwise everything would not be discussed.
Li Wei couldn't figure out where Zhao Yun came from, and he was not worried that Xu Rong would abandon the city and flee, so he ordered all the armies to stop the siege and let the soldiers return to the camp to rest, and at the same time strictly prevent the enemy from attacking the camp at night.
Not long after the Li Guo coalition army stopped besieging the city, Zhao Yun had the injured Li Ying released, but temporarily detained hundreds of Flying Bear Army prisoners, saying that they would be released one after another tomorrow.
Li Wei was not sure about the purpose of "Zhang Xu" to detain hundreds of prisoners, and was about to discuss with the military advisor Jia Xu, when he overheard a report from the police post outside the tent, claiming to have captured dozens of deserters who had fled back from Tongguan.
When Li Dao heard this, his face suddenly changed.