Chapter 289: Meeting on a Narrow Road
(Thanks to Taimeng, Zao Wheath 2014, UFGW, and Hui for their charters, which have always been there.) )
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The battle of the Donglai army's attack on Guan Ting can be called devastating.
500 sharp soldiers, raiding the unguarded 2,000 Yuan troops, most of them are auxiliary soldiers, servants and other logistics personnel, which can be called overwhelming. After breaking through the camp gate, the only resistance came from two patrol camps of about 100 people. It was not so much a resistance as a sudden encounter, and the other party had no time to escape, and as a result, it was rushed and collapsed by the Donglai army.
In the chaos, Wenda and several generals, under the cover of dozens of subordinates, rode out of the west gate of the camp and fled south. As a result, as soon as he ran out of Erlidi, he was intercepted by a group of men and horses who were killed in the middle of the road.
As the first general, riding a high-headed horse, holding a nine-foot fine iron knife, bearded hedgehog, roaring like a lion: "Liaodong Wumeng Captain Guanhai, waiting for Qingzhou Wumeng Captain!" ”
Wenda was originally a frightened bird, and suddenly ate this fright, trembled, and the reins in his hands tightened, and the war horse man stood up and flipped it to the ground.
The left and right Hu were to be dismounted and helped up, but most of them were shot down by a rain of arrows from the Donglai cavalry on the opposite side, and the rest of the people all dismounted and fell to the ground to surrender.
Guan Hai urged the cavalry to approach, patted Wen Da's pale cheek with a cold knife face, and looked like he hated iron but not steel: "I finally asked the general for a duel between the two captains, I thought I could stretch my muscles and bones, but I didn't expect it...... Under Yuan Xiaoer, is this such a bad seed! ”
The knife slapped his face, but Wenda didn't dare to move, his cheeks were red and swollen, tears were splashing, and his crotch was dripping.
"With your soft egg, you are also worthy of being called Captain Wu Mengdu, and Lao Tzu is unlucky. Rank with this waste! Guan Hai took a sip and rode away with a knife in frustration.
Wen Dadu, the main general of the Guan Ting battalion, has fallen to such a point, and the rest of the people can be imagined.
Tai Shici had planned for this raid for ten days, and he was not surprised to achieve victory, but he never imagined that there was almost no decent resistance during the whole process, and the Yuan army camp that looked decent was a paper tiger, which was broken when stabbed. Crushed into slag.
After the war, the Donglai army lost five people killed and thirteen wounded. The result of the battle was that 400 enemies were killed, and more than 1,200 enemies were captured, from the captain to the horseman, and almost did not run. The Yuan army poured into the pavilion camp, and the whole army was annihilated.
"It is said that he killed four hundred enemies, but in fact, he really died under the sword soldiers. But dozens, and the rest are all trampling on each other. Tai Shi Ci shook his head, although the results of the battle were gratifying, but he defeated such an army. But it's really not happy.
Guan Haiman waved his hand indifferently: "It's good if he can win, no matter how he wins, once the Guan Ting camp is broken, the Yuan family's child is equivalent to half a life." ”
Tai Shi Ci smiled: "That's right. If you win, you win, if you can win, you can win. Now, let's put the people in order. and then go and collect the remaining half of the Yuan family's children. ”
Tai Shi Ci and Guan Hai broke through the Guan Ting camp, seized the heavy grain and grass of the Yuan army, and copied the back road of the Yuan army, and the news spread to the city of Duchang, when Yuan Tan was commanding Lu Kuang and Su You, and besieged Duchang in a hurry. When the earth-shattering news came, Yuan Tan immediately jumped up from the couch, without the etiquette of the boss.
This will no longer be a question of whether to fight Duchang or whether to seize the North Sea, but how to safely withdraw to the plains. Therefore, even if Lu Kuang had already killed the head of the city, he had to collect his troops and quickly pack up and run away.
In mid-August, Yuan Tan, who invaded Beihai and besieged Duchang Yueyu, was overwhelmed and hastily withdrew. With Lu Kuang as the lead, and after Su was broken, he urgently withdrew to irrigate.
During the siege of the city, Kong Rong, who couldn't release the scroll in his hand, chanted and read, but didn't have a word of his heart, threw the book when he heard the news, and twisted his beard and roared: "Taishi Ziyi, the savior of the North Sea!" ”
Tai Shici not only wants to become the savior of the North Sea, but also wants to become the evil star of the Yuan army - the Donglai army of Liaodong and the Yuan army of Qingzhou are about to meet on a narrow road!
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Irrigation, from south to north, flows into the bay (Laizhou Bay), the river is eight zhang wide, a hundred miles of water surface, there are three bridges, two of which are wooden bridges and one stone bridge. These three bridges are the only way for Yuan's army to retreat westward.
When Yuan Tan led his army to retreat west, he found that the two wooden bridges had been demolished, and the two teams of soldiers guarding the bridges had been killed, and only the stone bridge in the north direction was still intact. When Yuan Jun hurried to the stone bridge, he was shocked to find that the bridge was indeed there, but it was blocked. It's an army that blocks the road.
"Taishi" flag, green eyes and white wolf headhunting flag.
Donglai Army! Tai Shi Ci!
Yuan Tan's face sank like water, and he called Lu Kuang: "Can you rush over?" ”
Lu Kuang's muscles and bones are hard, and his life is also hard, although he was knocked down from the city, he only sprained his arm, his chest and abdomen were bruised, and his head was swollen with a big bag. At this moment, he was gritting his teeth and staring at the army on the other side of the bridge for a long time before he bowed down and said categorically: "There are not many troops in Donglai, but only a battalion. ”
"Good! I'll give you a thousand strong soldiers, kill a bloody road, and remember your first merit! Yuan Tan paused, gritted his teeth and said, "If you can take the head of Tai Shici, you will be your general." ”
Lu Kuang was overjoyed, the general of Yuan Dudu, which means that he is the second in the army, he and Su Youming have been fighting secretly for many years, and finally have hope of winning. Of course, before that, you have to kick off the stumbling block that hinders your way to promotion.
The reason why Lu Kuang was full of confidence was that there were really not many Donglai troops intercepted, less than one battalion, only 600 men and horses.
Tai Shi Ci originally only led 800 soldiers to fight, and after capturing the Guanting camp, he left Guan Hai to lead 200 soldiers to supervise the prisoners, escort all kinds of seizures onto the ship, and transport them back to Donglai. He led 600 soldiers and horses to march eastward quickly, demolished the two wooden bridges on the irrigation river, and the third stone bridge was too late to be destroyed, so he formed a phalanx of 400 infantry troops, and 100 cavalry loitered on both wings, and led more than 100 personal guards to stand behind the formation.
Although there are few soldiers and horses in the Donglai army, they are placed in such a narrow passage as the long bridge, and the large number of people is useless, and only courage and combat power determine the victory.
When you meet on a narrow road, the brave wins!
Strictly speaking, the equipment of the Donglai Army is one grade lower than that of the White Wolf Battalion or the Dragon Wolf Army. Although they were armed with spears, they did not have broadswords, axes, crossbows, etc., and even less on flying horses and heavy horses.
In Ma Han's overall plan for the Liaodong Army, the Donglai Army was originally a second-line army, and with their geographical location, there were basically no natural enemies. The conflict with Yuan Tan is only based on deterrence. Plus in Ma Han's mind. Yuan Tan is not even a green onion, how could he throw the scarce strong soldiers and sophisticated equipment in Donglai and idle?
The old foundation of the Donglai Army is the former Liaodong soldiers when Liu Yi was the assassin of Yingzhou, except for the officers above the team leader who were transferred from the White Wolf Battalion, the soldiers and non-commissioned officers were all soldiers in the Gongsun Du era, they were not trained by the White Wolf Battalion, and it was Tai Shici who trained them.
Now, their trainer and commander are ten steps behind the formation. Fight against the enemy.
Looking at the vigorous Yuan Jun, Tai Shici pulled out the double halberd on his back, crossed it and inserted it into the ground, and said lightly: "I am behind the halberd, waiting in front of the halberd, there are those who have retreated from this halberd, and they have been cut off and beheaded!" ”
"Drink!" The Donglai soldiers roared in unison, and their morale was sharply boosted.
In the midst of this roar. Yuan Jun rushed onto the stone bridge.
These thousand pawns are the main soldiers of the Yuan army, and they are not bad at training and actual combat, and they are also very disciplined in fighting.
The bridge deck is just a zhang, and only five people can be used in parallel. The sword and shield soldiers in the front row of the Yuan army were spear and halberd soldiers, and then they were sword and shield soldiers, and then they were also spear and halberd soldiers. Alternately in this way, it is divided into twenty rows. This is the first wave of the attack.
When this Yuan army shot at the Donglai army like a sharp arrow, it highlighted the advantage of clicking on the surface. In the continuous collision of swords and shields, and the stabbing of spears and spears, the middle part of the Donglai army, which was relatively thin in formation, bore the brunt of the impact of Yuan's soldiers like waves. The first and second platoons of five sword and shield soldiers and spearmen were killed, and the third and fourth platoons went up, while the Donglai army was easily penetrated once the first few rows fell because the thickness of the formation was not enough. So soldiers from both sides kept pouring in to make up for the missing part in the middle.
One side wants to flee, the other side wants to fight to the death, and the battle begins to heat up.
Melee soldiers fought hand-to-hand, and the winged archers were not idle, shooting at each other across the river. The sky was staggered with arrows, and the water crackled as if it had rained heavily. On both sides, archers kept falling into the river. The boiling water instantly swept the blood halo and corpse northward and rushed into the sea......
After the first team of 100 suffered forty or fifty casualties, the rest collapsed. Lu Kuang didn't frown, waved the flag and ordered the second team to play...... After several times, after losing four hundred-man teams, the formation of the Donglai Army was finally "cut" thin.
For the fifth time, Lu Kuang and his gang sent two teams of 100 people to relay and collide.
Sure enough, the Donglai army array, which had suffered more than 100 injuries, was crumbling under the impact of the enemy's fresh force with equal strength.
"Good! The enemy will be broken! Yuan Tan stroked his palms and smiled, he can also be regarded as a veteran on the battlefield, whether the opponent is really unbearable or feints, he can still see it.
"Tai Shi Ci, someone has come to take your head!" Lu Kuang was afraid that this merit would fall into the hands of his soldiers, so he immediately picked up the ring knife, regardless of the shoulder injury, personally led 200 strong soldiers, and pressed it fiercely, intending to bulldoze and crush the Donglai army in one fell swoop.
When hundreds of Yuan troops crossed the stone bridge like a tidal wave, the Donglai army could no longer withstand it, and the formation was in chaos. At this moment, the horn sounded, and the flag waved rapidly. The Donglai soldiers were like being amnestied, and they hurriedly spread out to both sides, showing the main generals and guards behind the formation.
Tai Shi Ci put on his helmet and armor, and he didn't know when he had grabbed seven or eight small halberds in his hand, and shouted: "Throw!" Raising his hand and throwing his halberd, a pawn dozens of steps away fell in response.
At the same time, more than 50 guards raised their hands in unison, and javelins, halberds, and short axes shot into the air, and the sound of sneering was moving. Yuan Jun, who had just crossed the bridge, fell in an instant. This is not over, another fifty guards, standing behind the formation, raising their bows and throwing, the sound of strings turning over is endless, arrow after arrow, dense and continuous, actually in the middle of the bridge to clear a no-man's land, cut the Yuan army into two!
Like Ma Han, this general guard is the elite that Tai Shi Ci really trained with his own hands.
Tai Shi Ci has three uniques: archery, halberd throwing and double halberd. It is quite similar to Ma Han's long-range, medium-range, close-quarters and other battlefield control and killing skills, so the personal guards he trained also started on these three aspects.
Fifty quasi-marksmen, all carefully selected by Tai Shici from thousands of soldiers, and soldiers who are quite talented in archery, personally guided. Unlike the Wolf Tooth Flying Horse, they are foot archers, who pay more attention to precision and attack, and can shoot a storm of arrows in a short period of time, which can be called the "scavenger" of the battlefield.
This is also the third formed unit equipped with pulley bows in batches, in addition to the Wolf Tooth Flying Horse and Feiyan Ling.
Tai Shi Ci attaches the most importance to the output of long-range destruction on the battlefield, and at first he wanted to form a team of 100 marksmen, but unfortunately there are still few people with such talents, only fifty people. So he chose a person with great strength and dexterity, and taught him the art of throwing and melee combat.
Arrows, javelins, halberds, throwing axes...... As soon as he struck, a web of killing was woven over the battlefield.
Yuan's army was cut in two by a storm of arrows, and the more than 100 people who rushed across the bridge were hit by a rain of throwing weapons -- this was a thunderous blow that Tai Shici had been gathering for a long time, and it was also the final blow that settled the battle.
Lu Kuang was sandwiched in the middle, the soldiers behind him were cut off on the side of the bridge, and the soldiers in front fell down like grass, quickly revealing him as the main general. At the same time, he also saw the main general wielding the double halberd opposite.
Lu Kuang flew a few halberds with a shield, rushed forward, and shouted: "Tai Shici, come here!" A knife was slashed forward.
Tai Shi Ci's double halberds crossed, locked the ring head knife, shouted with both arms, pushed forward, pressed to Lu Kuang's throat, and the double halberds suddenly closed - scrape! Lu Kuang's head was strangled alive, angry blood spurted thin, and his head flew violently.
This is really "acceptance". (To be continued......)