Chapter 101 [Zhang Yan's Counterattack]
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The short and thrilling battle between Ma Han and Lu Bu only happened in a corner of the battlefield for more than ten miles, and no one paid attention to it. The energy of tens of thousands of people was all invested in the siege of the Montenegrin coalition army by the Yuan army.
The left and right wings of the coalition army are Hu cavalry, the characteristics of Hu cavalry is to wander and shoot at a gallop, if the short soldiers are connected, the weapons and armor of the Hu people are not as good as the cavalry of the Yuan army, and the formation charge is even less than that, that is, it is long with a short attack. Whether it's Tu Geren or Karasuma people, they are all cavalry tactics masters, and they won't do such a stupid thing.
As soon as the cavalry of the Yuan army rushed, more than 1,000 Hu cavalry immediately flew away, scattered into dozens of large and small strands, ran out of dozens of steps, and then turned the horse's head to face the chasing Yuan cavalry. Yuan Jun lost dozens of horses, but was able to get close to Hu Cai, and before the Hu people urged the horses to flee, they intercepted and killed dozens of Hu horses that fell behind, which was regarded as repaying the account. It was precisely because the Hu people lacked perfect saddle stirrup harnesses, coupled with the fact that most of them were herdsmen and lacked training, so they could not shoot back to the horse, and every time they shot, they had to turn around and stop the horse, so they were chased and intercepted by the Yuan army. If they were like white wolves, with stirrups and stirrups, trained well, and galloping and shooting, no matter how much Yuan Jun came, it would not be enough to die.
Hu Qili shot from a distance, Yuan Junli fought in close combat, the two sides chased each other, attacked and killed, and the north and south Zhangshui banks stirred up smoke, and from time to time a knight fell from his horse.
The left and right flanks of the coalition army dispersed, directly exposing the Duliao Battalion and the Jizhou Army. These two armies suffered heavy losses in the fierce battle the day before yesterday, and their combat effectiveness deteriorated sharply. One is not combative, the other is unmorale, and the two are together. The whole weak and weak joined forces, and they were rushed by Yuan Jun, and the formation dispersed in three or two clicks.
Yishou took dozens of riders and fled in a panic, but was targeted by Gao Ran, and unfortunately bumped into Lu Bu, a bad star, and ended up in a different place.
In the melee, the main force of the Montenegrin Army did not suffer heavy losses, and Zhang Yan had more than ten years of experience in his career as a horseman. Most of his subordinates have followed him to the north and south for many years, and he has seen no less dead people than living people. The left and right flanks were routed, but the Chinese army was not shaken, and the Montenegrin army resisted Yuan's army on the one hand, and prevented the rout from charging into the army formation on the other.
On the other side, Geng Zhi, the general of Duliao, only had five or six hundred people left, and was surrounded by the army led by Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang on a hill. Geng Zhi kept waving the flag for help, but Zhang Yan's Chinese army was two miles away, only caring about resisting Yuan's army. But he didn't send a ride to the rescue.
At this time, the officers and soldiers of the Duliao battalion were killed and wounded, and the arrows were exhausted.
Geng Zhi sat on a rock. His face was covered with smoke and dust, his eyebrows were stained with gray, his eyes were bloodshot, and he held the hilt of his sword tightly. The expression was stunned. Seeing that Zhang Yan couldn't help but be disheartened, he couldn't help but become disheartened, and said to the left and right: "I have heard that Zhang Feiyan is cunning and selfish. Today's events bear witness to their names. A certain empty skill, but the person is unknown, if he votes for Yuan Gong early, no matter how bad it is, it will be a riding captain. ”
When the soldiers under his command heard this, they were very discouraged.
The Lord will be so discouraged, where can this battle be fought? Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang were overjoyed when they learned that Geng Zhi was willing to surrender, this is a big fat fish! Immediately ordered the soldiers in front to take a hundred steps back and let Geng Zhi come over.
Geng Zhi took off his helmet, unsheathed his sword, held it in both hands, and under the escort of four servants, he descended from the hill and walked in the direction of "Jiang" and "Lu".
Geng Zhi had just reached the bottom of the slope when suddenly there was a sharp sound of horses' hooves, and the flanks rode like the wind. Long knife skirt uàn cherry blossom ⊙ 獬逄欤蠛fierce imitation good tree D pre-hydrazine flying dorsal buck sodium technetium Fei Huang Huang Zheng "oxime cover new 湎 Lu neon quasi dou VII. Ling Cape Broken Worm 18. Lao Huang arched his hand: "Accept, concede." He laughed loudly and flew away like a horse.
Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang were dumbfounded, and when they came back to their senses, they were already far away. The second general was angry and scolded: "Guo Yuan! Thieves are abominable! It's too much of a deception! I'm going to sue you before my lord!" ”
Although the second general was so angry that he fainted, he knew that this Guo Yuan was the nephew of Zhong Xuan, a famous man in Yingchuan, who was born in a prestigious family, and was valued by the lord, and even more friendly with the third son, which was not at all comparable to these poor generals. I complained in front of the lord in vain, but I was afraid that I would bring humiliation on myself, and I had to swallow this evil breath.
Jiang Qi grabbed Lu Weihuang, who was about to steal the knife and fight, pointed at Zhang Yanzhongjun, and said: "Let this little thief go, we will fight the Black Mountain thief together, and take greater merit for ourselves." ”
Lu Weihuang then got off the donkey, threw his sword to the ground angrily, and led his own army away.
Regardless of the crisis of friendly forces, Zhang Yan took advantage of the high ground and defended himself, and Yuan's army attacked more than a dozen times, but returned in vain. After Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang joined, the pressure doubled, and when the situation was critical, coach Zhang Yan even personally used a spear, clashed from the high ground, and killed dozens of generals. Although Zhang Yan fought on foot, he came and went like the wind, and his speed was not lost to the galloping horse, and hundreds of Yuan troops failed to intercept and kill him.
The commander personally came to the battle formation, rushed left and right, and killed the enemy, which made the morale of the Montenegrin army blazing and doubling its combat power.
Seeing that the thieves were difficult to break for a while, and they were tired from the long battle, the soldiers of the Yuan army took advantage of the opportunity of Jiang Qi and Lu Weihuang's fresh army to join and withdraw a part of it to rest and recuperate. Many soldiers of the Yuan army ran to a place hundreds of steps away from the Chinese army in Montenegro to unload their armor and rest, so as to recover the bodies of people and horses, and some people took out dry food and water, and pointed to the high ground while eating and drinking, with disdain.
Just when the Yuan army thought that the victory was in their hands and their morale was relaxed, the ground suddenly trembled slightly, and the soldiers looked around suspiciously, and the sharp-eyed people found that a few miles away there was a number of smoke and dust gently raised by the edge of the forest. The experienced veterans of the battle formation couldn't help but shudder, this is the elite cavalry of the centaur rank is secretly approaching, fortunately the sun has not yet set, if the twilight is four, they are afraid that they will not even have time to organize resistance.
The shouts resounded in the crowd for the first time, and the soldiers of the Yuan army got up one after another to put on their armor, and for a while, the silent dusk immediately became noisy and restless, and the sound of gold and iron resounded. The cavalry also seemed to be aware of the enemy's discovery, and they let go of their horses and surged towards it. It didn't take long for the layers of banners of the cavalry army to meet the eyes of the soldiers of the Yuan army, and some people counted these flags carefully, and couldn't help but gasp, according to the density of this banner and the number of people and horses, this group of thieves was no less than three thousand.
This elite assault cavalry is the ambush cavalry led by Sun Qing, the cavalry commander of the Black Mountain Army.
Zhang Yan has always kept this killer weapon, in order to take advantage of the chaos to start a surprise attack behind Yuan Shao's army. The plan was very good, but unexpectedly Yuan Shao preemptively took advantage of the celestial wind to break the Montenegrin coalition army in one fell swoop. In desperation, he had to ambush the soldiers and rescue the soldiers, and gave Sun Qing the banner of relieving the siege.
Sun Qing is a fierce general who has followed Zhang Yan for more than ten years, and after receiving the order, he did not attack immediately, he has seen that the Chinese army is defending the royal degree, and the Yuan army has no choice for a while. He not only wanted to savior the Lord, but also to teach Yuan Jun a profound lesson. Finally, the opportunity came, Yuan Jun was lax, the soldiers were unprepared, and it was a good time to launch a surprise attack.
The Yuan army was still in a hurry, and the Black Mountain Iron Cavalry was already roaring into the crowd, and many poor soldiers who had fought old battles were rushed to the ground by the war horses running like a hundred beasts before they had time to form a formation to resist. Many Yuan soldiers rolled under the raging iron hooves; Some of them had just grabbed the weapons beside them when they were pierced through the chest by the Montenegrin cavalry that came at a gallop; Some people shouted loudly, trying to stop their defeated companions, and coldly flew ropes from near to trap him...... Almost one-sided slaughter. At this time, these veterans who had killed countless people were like a group of lambs waiting to be killed, rushing in the shadow of the buildings, and fleeing in all directions.
Seeing this opportunity, Zhang Yan on the high ground would not let it go, and immediately ordered the whole army to counterattack, attacking head to end, and defeating the Yuan army, which was still high-spirited at the previous moment.
Cavalry Lieutenant Jiang Qi wanted to win a great achievement, but he didn't expect to be attacked from front to back, especially his face-to-face enemy was Zhang Yan's elite guard, who bore the brunt of the attack, and the servants around him suffered heavy casualties under the enemy cavalry assault, and he was caught in the chaos of the army and could not advance or retreat.
In a critical situation, Jiang Qi had to give up his command and lead more than a dozen soldiers from the cavalry to the crowded Yuan army's foot soldiers to kill the killers, slash and whip, and kill a bloody road - the blood of his own people. Quickly run towards the mound not far away. When you run to a high place, you can dismount and form a formation, or shoot vigorously with a bow, or hold a shield to block the stray arrows, or force back with a spear to attack the Montenegrin stragglers. When the defensive position was certain, Jiang Qi made people recognize the flag, and at the same time sent fast horses to report to the nearby friendly forces.
The Montenegrin army took turns to lower their horses from the high ground to the north, attacking the Yuan army who was still resisting, and they were like sharp scythes constantly cutting into the enemy position until the enemy collapsed, then they cut through the chisel, and then outflanked and drove the enemy, trying to use these routs to break away from the enemy positions further south. In this way, the Montenegrin army crushed the military formations of Yuan's army slightly north one by one, and tore the defense line they had built up with great difficulty in a critical state to pieces, until it collapsed.
In this assault, in addition to the troops of the cavalry commander Jiang Qi, the army formation that was broken in turn also included the troops led by the cavalry governor Yinkui, the army commander Zhang Nan, Jiao Touch, Lu Weihuang and other generals. These warriors, who are quite famous in the army, were still showing off their might in the battle not long ago, and now they are also drifting with the tide in the chaotic army like lost dogs. In such a situation, even if they turned around and resisted stubbornly without fear of death, they were only enemies of one or two people, and they had little impact on the war.
The battlefield was reversed, the attack and defense of the opposing sides were reversed, the military formations of the warring parties were staggered, and from time to time there was a torrent of iron horses rolling through the crowd, and many people lost their lives under the trampling of these iron hooves like the wind.
After a hundred battles, the Montenegrin army fought a bloody battle, and then turned back into shape. In the shape of a thousand shots, can Yuan Jun still turn the tide like he did during the Battle of Jieqiao?
On the lookout, Tian Feng, Zhao Zhao, Zhang He, Gao Gan and other civil and military generals all advised Yuan Shao to retreat to Xiaquyang to avoid the enemy's front.
Yuan Shao's face was solemn, without saying a word, he walked down from the lookout, walked to the back of the Chinese army, pulled out his halberd, threw it to the ground, and shouted: "Lone is here to supervise the formation, if there is anyone who retreats from this halberd, there will be no forgiveness." (To be continued......)