Chapter 353: The Matter of Youzhou (7)
Not long after, Gongsun Zhan led his army to appear in the rear of Xu Ji's army.
At this time, a large number of war horses rushed in front of Gongsun Zhan's army.
These horses had some minor or severe injuries on their bodies.
Gongsun Zhan's son, Gongsun Xu, jumped off the war horse and pulled over a galloping war horse.
Seeing his son's swift movements like a leopard, Gongsun Zhan was relieved and couldn't stop nodding. looks very similar to Gongsun Zhan, but Gongsun Yue, who is a lot less heroic, smiled and said to Gongsun Zhan: "Xu'er has the demeanor of his brother back then, but seeing that he can hold the galloping horse with one hand, you can know that he is a few points stronger than his brother in terms of strength, and the most rare thing is that he is still young, and he will definitely be better than the blue in the future!" ”
Gongsun Fan nodded yes on the side. At this time, Gongsun Xu had already finished inspecting the war horse, came to Gongsun Zhan's side, and said in a deep voice: "Father! I've already checked the horses just now, and they have the marks of the Xianbei people's horses, and it seems that the horses have been injured a little, and the owner of the horses has died on the battlefield. ”
Guan Jing was overjoyed and said: "Lord, it seems that the Yanzhou Army has really fought with Liu He." ”
Zou Dan, the general on the side, looked into the distance, and found that there was chaos in the distance, and Liu He's camp was even more on fire, so he couldn't help frowning and said: "Mr. Guan Jing, Xu Ji was already fighting with Liu He's army, what'......s so strange about this" Guan Jing and Fu Dan had the best relationship, so he smiled and said: "General Fu really doesn't know the ...... of the Yanzhou army"
Turning his head, he saw that Gongsun Xu looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, his heart moved, and he said to Gongsun Xu: "The young master seems to have a lot of experience in studying the Yanzhou Army. You may wish to explain it for you. ”
Gongsun Xu glanced at Gongsun Chan and got his father's consent. Only then did he groan: "Looking at the dozens of battles of the Yanzhou army, whether it is Xu Ji standing tall in the political arena. It is still the Yanzhou Army's crisscrossing of the Central Plains some time ago, and the Yanzhou Army will always have a characteristic, that is, it wants to obtain the greatest results with the smallest losses. Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and they calmed down and thought about it, but found that what Gongsun continued to say was indeed very reasonable.
Gongsun Chan didn't expect his son to have this kind of meeting. couldn't help but encourage: "Go on!" ”
Gongsun Xu was originally trembling, for fear of saying the wrong thing in front of his father, after all, Gongsun Chan's temper was notoriously short-tempered, and at this moment, seeing that Gongsun Chan agreed with his opinion, he immediately increased his confidence and said: "To achieve such brilliant results, then one thing is indispensable - intelligence!" Guan Jing's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this. That's exactly what he was trying to say.
Gongsun continued to say in a deep voice: "Xu Ji can become the overlord of the north, there must be his own unique set, but although Xu Ji and we negotiated this time to show his heroic side, I don't believe that he will be so stupid that he can't imagine that we will never hand over his mother to him, so Xu Ji will definitely find a way to save the defeat, and the best way is of course to seize the close people of his father and exchange with his father." Xu Ji did not take any action within five days after agreeing to our army's request for three days, which is clearly investigating the situation of our army, so it is possible that Xu Ji's military action today is really attacking Liu He, or it is possible that he is designing a trap and waiting for us to take the bait. There was a pause. Gongsun continued to breathe a sigh of relief and said: "Xu Ji is not Liu Yu's kind of rice bag, this person has been talking and doing things unfathomably since he was unknown, and if he is not careful, he will fall into his trap without knowing it, Xu Ji must be thinking of other ways while agreeing to his father's request." And these few days are the buffer time for Xu Ji to think of ideas! ”
When everyone heard this, their hearts sank, and they couldn't help nodding, and they all felt that Gongsun Xu was very reasonable. Guan Jing praised: "I have a relationship in my heart. What the major general said was not bad at all, so I asked the lord to march slowly. Don't rush it. Don't get bitten back by the enemy. ”
Gongsun Xu was already able to talk eloquently at this time, and said in a deep voice: "But I just saw that war horse. knew that Xu Ji really started a war against Liu He, because the number of war horses in this group of escaped places was very large, and they were wounded. There is even more smoke and dust from the battle, presumably Xu Ji is helpless against our army, right? ”
Zou Dan frowned and said, "Can the young general explain in more detail?" Gongsun continued to say in a deep voice: "After a few days of investigation, Xu Ji should know that his father is a man, and his principle of being a man is not only to be ruthless to the enemy, but also to be ruthless to his own people. Let's imagine, if my grandson is caught by Xu Ji, will my father exchange Xu Ji's mother for me? ”
The crowd was silent. Because the answer is yes, Gongsun Chan won't. "So." Gongsun continued to assert in a deep voice: "Xu Ji knows that even if he captures his father's relatives, there is no way to blackmail his father, so he can only give up, which is probably the result of his investigation in the past five days." Seeing that there was really no other way, he honestly chose to help his father attack Liu He's army. However, he did not agree with Mr. Guan Jing that he would take a day to attack Liu He, so even though he didn't do it until today, his father had no way to say that Xu Ji was not keeping his word. ”
Hearing this, a cold light flashed in Gongsun Zhan's eyes, and he snorted coldly: "You dare to play with me!" Xu Ji, you will be good-looking in the future! Then he looked at Gongsun and continued: "Xu'er, you have to remember that the people of my Gongsun family must not be coerced by others, life and death are fateful, you can't force it, don't say that you fall into the hands of Xu Ji, that is, one day I myself fall into the hands of Xu Ji, you can't be soft-hearted, understand?" ”
Gongsun continued to nod yes, with a strong face. Gongsun Chan turned his head to look in the direction of Fan Yang, Guan Jing knew what Gongsun Chan was thinking, so he said again: "Don't worry, the defenders on Fan Yang's side are already marching in a hurry, and they are not very far from here, I think they will come soon, and when the time comes, our strength will increase greatly, so why be afraid?" Gongsun Chan nodded, turned his head, and said to the people around him: "Xu Ji killed two noble warriors of the grassland alien race in order to show his intention to cooperate with my Gongsun Chan on that day, which has actually formed a deep enmity with the grassland alien race, you must know that the grassland alien clan is willing to help Liu He this time just to use Liu He." Where can Liu He really manipulate those unruly prairie dog thieves? Xu Ji killed their people, and these grassland aliens would definitely not give up. The war horses that have run around us today are all the war horses of the Xianbei people, which shows that there is absolutely no room for turning around between Xu Ji and other races. Now that we have established that the front and the melee are not Xu Ji's ambush. What other options do we have? Take advantage of the battle between Xu Ji and Liu He, kill me! Kill both of them! Gongsun Chan gave an order, and his cavalry swarmed out.
Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Yue, Gongsun Fan, Gongsun Xu, Zou Dan and others urged the war horses together, leading more than 40,000 Youzhou soldiers to start attacking Xu Ji's army.
At this time, Xu Ji had already noticed the arrival of Gongsun Zhan. Seeing that Gongsun Zhan's cavalry was already coming, he commanded the 5,000 Yanzhou cavalry that had been ready to attack all along. When Gongsun Zhan's army was still more than a thousand steps away. Xu Jiyi waved the spear in his hand and said in a low voice: "My men from Yanzhou." Do you remember the last time you and I, Xu Ji, attacked the enemy in the open? Yes, at that time, when we rescued Cao Mengde outside Luoyang City, we attacked Xu Rong's army in Bingzhou, and we took one as ten! Today, I'll Xu Ji and see if you still have the glory of the past? Or maybe it's going to the next level! ”
The Yanzhou cavalry was enthusiastically boiled by Xu Ji's words, and roared in unison: "Hurry——! ”
Xu Ji took the lead, raised the silver gun in his hand and rushed forward. At this time, Chen Zhi pretended to be in front of him and was not around, Xu Ji also took advantage of this time to taste the long-lost battle array to kill, to be honest, since the battle outside Luoyang, he had not commanded the army to charge head-on for a long time.
The five thousand Yanzhou heavy cavalry began to slowly accelerate. Like a cheetah on the grassland, head down and forward. Then it gradually accelerated, and when it reached more than 100 steps, it had entered the high-speed period.
At this time, Gongsun Chan realized that things seemed to be different from what he imagined.
In his opinion, Xu Ji should devote all his troops to it, after all, there are so many Xianbei war horses running away, which proves the intensity of the battle, no matter how powerful the Yanzhou army is, it should be 10,000 cavalry in the face of Liu He's army. But in the process of getting closer, he found that there was still an army in the Yanzhou army that was still moving. It's a pity that he was too far away just now, he couldn't see the situation clearly, and he didn't dare to send scouts in advance, for fear that Xu Ji would find out and make his actions go to waste.
That's what led to the current situation.
What made Gongsun Chan even more unexpected was that the Yanzhou army on the other side actually chose to counter-charge in the face of an enemy several times his size. This caught Gongsun Chan a little off guard. It is absolutely suicidal for the Yanzhou Army to do this. But with Xu Ji's temperament and calculations, would he really do this?
Because it was a mid-range impact, Gongsun Zhan's cavalry had already run in front of the infantry. The distance between the cavalry and the infantry was very different, and this situation was obviously extremely unfavorable to Gongsun Zhan.
The Yanzhou army in front of him is a heavy cavalry. With an absolute advantage in the impact at this distance. Anyone who stands in the way of the Yanzhou Heavy Cavalry will be killed or routed in an instant.
Gongsun Zhan's white horse cavalry is indeed good, but it is not strong enough to compete with the Yanzhou cavalry head-on. Moreover, Bai Ma Yicong is also a light cavalry to put it bluntly, and it is impossible to clash head-on with this heavy cavalry in Yanzhou. And Gongsun Chan knows very well that now he is fighting with the Yanzhou army, which is undoubtedly self-defeating.
Of course, if the Yanzhou heavy cavalry lost its impact and were entangled by the infantry, they could only be tortured to death by the infantry who were agile and mobile in close combat.
The problem is that now Gongsun Chan's infantry is left far behind, waiting for them to rush up. Gongsun Zhan's cavalry was afraid that they had already suffered heavy casualties.
However, at this time, it was too late for Gongsun Chan to change the order, and if he turned around and withdrew, he would definitely be attacked by the tail and chased to death. At that time, the most unlucky ones will probably be the infantry, right? They will inevitably be defeated in one fell swoop by the Yanzhou cavalry, which has reached its peak momentum because of the pursuit.
So far, I can only grit my teeth and stiffen up.
If there are only these 5,000 Yanzhou cavalry, he is not without a chance to win, after all, those 5,000 cavalry have already fought with Liu He, and they should not be able to return to help. At this time, Liu He's camp was already billowing with smoke. In Gongsun Zhan's eyes, of course, the two sides are fighting happily, after all, Gongsun Chan is still a certain distance from Liu He's camp, so he is not afraid to have him.
And someone was directing his cavalry to shout back and forth in the smoke that could not see people clearly.
However, although Chen Zhi was commanding the battle far away from Xu Ji, he had already noticed Gongsun Zhan, so he ordered his cavalry to assemble behind the invisible smoke of Gongsun Zhan and prepare to assist Xu Ji's heavy cavalry. At this time, Gongsun Zhan's army advanced more than three hundred steps.
Gongsun Zhan's white-horse cavalry drew their bows and shot arrows. In the middle distance, you want to give the Yanzhou army some damage.
However, after seeing the arrows falling on the heavy armor of the Yanzhou army, they could only stir up a little spark, but it was difficult to cause substantial damage to the Yanzhou heavy cavalry.
In an instant. The extremely fast Yanzhou cavalry came to the front of Gongsun Zhan's army. The screams immediately followed.
The astonishing impact of each heavy cavalry of the Yanzhou Army with men and horses was very lethal. As soon as many of Gongsun Zhan's cavalry came into contact with the Yanzhou cavalry, they felt like an electric shock all over their bodies. I couldn't sit still on a horse. It's not a tiger's mouth bursting, and both hands scatter guns. Otherwise, it fell directly from the horse's buttocks, and then the horses of the cavalry of their own cavalry were crushed to pieces. After the first round of heavy cavalry impact of the Yanzhou army, Gongsun Zhan's vanguard was immediately defeated, and Gongsun Zhan's younger brother Gongsun Yue was also pierced in the arm by a shot from the Yanzhou cavalry.
The injured Gongsun Yue was saved by his own soldiers, covered in blood.
The Yanzhou heavy cavalry also lost its impact because of this wall-like block.
Although Gongsun Zhan was a little heartbroken about his losses, he still couldn't hide the joy in his heart, because he had fought against the regular army of Yanzhou that was forbidden. As far as Gongsun Chan knows. Yu Ban's Yanzhou cavalry must have infantry behind them to support the line, in order to protect the Yanzhou cavalry.
And the Yanzhou cavalry in front of them was not protected by infantry. Then as long as their own infantry comes up, the Yanzhou cavalry can only sit and wait to die.
Who knew that before Gongsun Chan could laugh out loud, he saw a thousand Yanzhou cavalry that were different from the front of the four thousand Yanzhou heavy cavalry that were at the front. They were wearing special armor - what appeared to be tree vines.
The weapon they hold in their hands is not a spear, but a saber!
Gongsun Chan saw the light cavalry of Yanzhou for the first time. Because there is no such class in the army of Xu Huang, who is forbidden to replace. In Xun You's army, there were only a small number of cavalry used as scouts and vanguards, so they were completely defenseless against this. The light cavalry of Yanzhou were all masters of equestrianism, and they saw that they were swimming gracefully with the help of their crotch horses among thousands of enemies, and the swords in their hands were extremely powerful. He slashed quickly, killing the white horse cavalry of Gongsun Zhan, who arrived later and wanted to attack the Yanzhou heavy cavalry that could not be attacked for a short time.
Gongsun Zhan's eyes were red and he roared angrily. He also saw that his younger brother Gongsun Yue was seriously wounded. is even more violent, with his own soldiers rushing to kill. As a result, they were entangled by the light cavalry of Yanzhou, and the cooperation between these light cavalry was extremely tacit. does not have a hard confrontation with Gongsun Chan, but entangles Gongsun Chan with a knife on the left and a knife on the right.
And Xu Ji was like a bamboo at this time. Although it is difficult for him to reach the realm of Lu Bu or Chen Zhi in terms of progress, he is already a first-class player. I saw that the silver spear flashed, and the enemy fell to the ground one after another.
ran into Gongsun Xu head-on.
"I am Gongsun Xu" The words are not finished. Xu Ji's silver spear stretched out like a flower that bloomed in spring. Gongsun Xu has always been conceited and strong in martial arts, and just now he saw Xu Ji rushing back and forth in the chaotic army, and there is nothing strange about his marksmanship, but it is a fast word.
No one seems to be faster than him!
Gongsun Xu was aroused by his curiosity and came to invite him to fight. As a result, as soon as Xu Jiyin's gun came out, he immediately saw a lot of brilliance in front of him, and he couldn't see anything clearly. Before he could understand what was going on, Gongsun Xu felt that there were more than two dozen places on his body that were stung by a thin and small sharp air current, almost in no particular order.
The body bounced up inexplicably, and then fell to the ground.
Gongsun Xu was about to scream, but found that his tongue was cold, and it turned out that the tip of the other party's gun was attached to his tongue.
Gongsun continued to think of Gongsun Zhan's words, and as soon as he gritted his teeth, he wanted to bite his tongue and kill himself. Xu Ji's silver spear had already been drawn, and when he saw Gongsun Xu's appearance, he immediately understood what he was going to do, and hit Gongsun Xu's head with a gun, and the latter passed out.
"Continue!" Gongsun Chan saw it in his eyes and couldn't help but roar.
At this time, Gongsun Zhan's infantry army had already arrived.
Gongsun Zhan's spirits perked up, and he was about to give the order for a full-scale attack, but he was surprised to find that no less than 5,000 Yanzhou light cavalry appeared behind the Yanzhou heavy cavalry on the opposite side. Gongsun Zhan hurriedly looked at Liu He's camp, but found that Liu He's camp was still full of smoke, but not half of the soldiers of Liu He's army were in and out of it.
Gongsun Chan finally found out that something was wrong, because there was no body on the ground at all.
This is absolutely not normal!
How can there be a reason in this world to fight for half a day without casualties?
The only explanation is that everything in front of him is a trap set by Xu Ji. Thinking of this, Gongsun Chan hated it in his heart.
Although Chen Zhi himself did not participate in the war, he promised Xu Ji to let his long-suppressed lord vent once, but with the addition of these 5,000 light cavalry, the Yanzhou heavy cavalry no longer had any regrets.
As a result, the heavy cavalry attacked, and the light cavalry harassed, constantly attacking Gongsun Zhan's army.
The indestructible forward stabbing of the heavy cavalry spear, and the slashing of the light cavalry with the yellow slashing and vertical slashing of the saber, completely turned into a huge meat grinder. Flesh and blood flying!
No one can stop this Yanzhou army.
What's more, there is Xu Ji, the leader of the Yanzhou army?
After a short time, Gongsun Zhan's army was completely unable to gain a foothold and began to retreat.
Of course, there were many people who were directly hacked to death by the Yanzhou army, but there were even more people who were frightened by the Yanzhou army and turned around and ran. Gongsun Chan had no choice but to retreat under the cover of his subordinates.
And his retreat soon turned into a rout of the whole army.
Before Xu Ji could meet Gongsun Zhan, he saw the latter break through, and Xu Ji only sent 2,000 light cavalry to chase behind.
Watching Gongsun Zan retreat in the direction of Yi Jing, Xu Ji thought in his heart: Xun You should defeat Yi Jing, right? And Zhang He, Fan Yang's reinforcements should be in your bag! (To be continued......)