Chapter 16: The Battle (I)
After the rectification, the military system is five or five for each army, five brigades for each army, and five battalions for each brigade, according to the front, rear, left, center, and right. When the casualties of the third battalion began to increase, Wang Pei didn't think about it and said:
"On the camp!"
Another battalion of soldiers rushed forward, and Han Gongwu and Gao Xiayu on the left and right also replaced their own troops. The three battalions fighting in front retreated from their own positions on both sides, and when they came to the rear to rest, of course, they did not forget to take away the remains of Paoze. The soldiers who came up behind accelerated, charged, flashed with swords, and knocked down a large area of the Huaixi army.
Five consecutive charges of more than 1,000 people caused great casualties to the Huaixi Army, Zhang Boliang ran to the Chinese army in a huff and said to Wu Yuanqing and Dong Chongzhen:
"It's not okay to stand still and be beaten like this, a certain charge can beat them back."
Wu Yuanqing didn't speak, looked at Dong Chongzhen, and Dong Chongzhi said:
"After a while, the officers and soldiers are exhausted, let's fight back!"
However, as soon as Huaixi's counterattack cavalry was assembled, it was called. The soldiers in black armor retreated with a slight panic. The unconsciously tidal offensive finally stopped, and a large number of corpses fell in front of the Huaixi army, of course, those were the Huaixi army's own, the wounded soldiers rolled and wailed on the ground, and the dead soldiers clutched their chests with both hands, this scene happened around them, and the protagonist was a comrade who had eaten with him in the morning, and the impact on the exhausted Huaixi army was huge. Only then did the Huaixi Army remember that, first, he was also flesh and blood, and second, field warfare was not his specialty, his specialty was surprise attacks. For the generals of the Huaixi Army, their every move is under the surveillance of others, and they can even be seen by others when they pee, which is extremely unpleasant. So they just stared at the other side with hatred, not thinking of cleaning up the battlefield and removing the bodies of soldiers killed in battle like the officers and soldiers did. Such an oversight is undoubtedly fatal. I once read an article that Zhang Fakui defended the front line of Jiangxi during World War II, and the reason why he collapsed was because he did not organize the people to clean up the remains of the sacrificed soldiers in time. Although the Huaixi Army ignores life and death, when life and death happen around him in such an unpleasant way all the time, the test of nerves is huge. Especially the wounded soldiers, the level of battlefield ambulance in that era was the same as the results of the Chinese men's football team, no matter how big it was, it was a zero, and the wounded soldiers could only resign themselves to fate. During the break, listening to the mournful screams of their comrades who were still alive in the morning, they begged for a good time, and many Huaixi soldiers turned their heads. There are also hard-hearted people who pick up the knife in their hands, walk to a certain village or a small person, and say:
"Wood, I'm sorry."
A knife to give a painful one. Then walk back and sit on the ground and snort and gasp. Killing people is a necessary professional quality, but killing an enemy is different from killing one's own people. The enemy may have the same family and the same background as yourself, but you don't know him, killing one and killing two is a matter of falling with a knife, but killing your own people, you will remember a lot of things. Of course, immediately after discovering that something was wrong, officers went to the Chinese army to find Zhang Boliang, and Zhang Boliang ordered the bodies of the fallen soldiers to be removed. The wounded soldiers in front of the search array were transported to the rear camp, and those that could not be treated were directly exceeded, so as not to interfere with the morale of the army.
The front army carried the corpses while laying the horses. Originally, it was intended to attack, but now it has become a stick, and the original firm confidence has been shaken. Wu Yuanqing attributed the reason to the tower.
Wu Yuanqing pointed to the tower angrily and said:
"Can you get that thing off?"
Dong Chongzhi said:
"We don't have to knock it down, doesn't he think he can see it for anything? Let's let him see, and when they are stunned, they will know that we still have an army that they can't see. ”
After that, he looked up at the sky and said:
"It's probably just past the hour, and when it's too late, we'll be able to kill him cleanly. At most, there are only 3,000 men and horses left in the official army camp, and it is still the Henan army, our army can probably capture the camp with only one charge, and at that time the camp will be on fire, and I don't believe that the officers and soldiers can still have the heart to fight, and our army will take advantage of the situation to counterattack, and it will undoubtedly win. Please also ask General Zhang to grit his teeth and insist. ”
Zhang Boliang said:
"If there are at most 3,000 officers and soldiers left in the official and military camp, then there are now 40,000 officers and troops on the opposite side, and it is already good to be able to hold out until noon with one to four. Where can you hold on to it? ”
Dong Chongzhi said:
"General Zhang doesn't have to worry, the officers and soldiers are just momentary bravery. At a critical time, the young marshal will send the Chinese army. ”
Although Wu Yuanqing was nominally the main general, the mastermind was Dong Chongzhen, and Zhang Boliang was not easy to object, so he had to hurry back to the front army to rectify the army. Before leaving:
"Give me all the rejections!"
There are still three hours to go.
After Zhang Boliang left, Wu Yuanqing asked worriedly:
"Isn't it too late to strike?"
Dong Chongzhi sighed:
"There's no way around it! I calculated just now that the number of troops put into the attack was less than 10,000, and the rear army of the Chinese army did not move, even if they burned their camp in advance, there would be no damage to them. The 10,000 men in the rear army can't move anyway, it's really not possible, let's transfer 2,000 from our battalion out. ”
While the Huaixi army was carrying the corpses, Wang Pei gathered his own army again. Originally, Cao Hua had been ordered to lead two brigades of the Zhaoyi Forty Army to take his place, but Wang Peixian refused, and Wang Pei said angrily:
"Tell the commander and the chief manager that I, Wang Pei, am not dead yet! I still have three or four thousand soldiers in my 40th army to die! ”
Originally, Chen Xujun, who was worried about the setback in the first battle, would decline, but what else is there to worry about now? Adie stood on the tower, his face aching from the wind. The sky is still dark gray. Adie Guangyan thought:
"Where's my 5,000 son?"
"Second Brigade, Front Battalion, Left Battalion, Right Battalion, Up!"
Wang Pei gave the order. After a short break, another round of attacks began. Unlike the last time, this time the two wings did not move, and Chen Xujun attacked mainly. And Wang Pei also stood in front of the army.
"There are thieves without me, there are no thieves with me!"
Wang Pei drew his sword and shouted.
"There are thieves without me, there are no thieves with me!"
The soldiers of the Second Brigade shouted after Wang Pei. The dense formation slowly moved forward. Xuanwujun and Gao Xiayu's subordinates followed behind the flank.
"Raise your shield!"
Raise the wooden shield to block the rain of arrows. The arrows of both sides crossed the sky, collided with each other with a crisp sound, and when they fell to the ground, there was a wail. Chen Xujun followed behind Wang Peixian and firmly approached the Huaixi army.
Huaixi thieves, blood debts must be repaid with blood.
Chen Xu instigated the army, don't think about crossing us. The spearmen of the Huaixi Army stood behind the rejection of the horse, regardless of the fact that the bodies of their comrades were still rolling under their feet, and coldly pointed their spears at Chen Xujun. Killing to the front, there is already no way to retreat, taking advantage of the gap between the Huaixi archers to release arrows, more than a dozen Chen Xu soldiers wearing heavy armor, squeezed out of the shield array, turned over the rejection of the horse, and the spears of the Huaixi army immediately stabbed over.
A voice whispered:
"Archer, prepare!"
Under the cover of the brigade, hundreds of Chen Xu's crossbowmen set up arrows in the back, drew their bows, leaned back, and shot out the resentment that had been suppressed for a long time. Huaixi's archers and spearmen immediately fell in large numbers. Wang Pei in order to kill Huaixi's crossbowmen more, he actually endured and did not release the arrows back, just relying on the cover of Han Gongwu Gao Xiayu, and suddenly ordered to release the arrows when he came closer, and the request was to put eight arrows, and when he put it in the seventh branch, Chen Xujun's archers were already weak and weak, and many arrows had fallen on their heads when the eighth was already very strong, but the Huaixi army, which was suddenly killed, did not have time to laugh at their neighbors, but tried their best to deal with the heavy armored soldiers in Chen Xu's army who refused to move horses, However, Wang Pei secretly scolded:
"Mother sells X, it's a shame!"
After the archer finished putting the arrows, his arms were already sore and weak, and he ran towards the main formation with the bow and crossbow on his back, and Cao Hua's Zhaoyi front army began to move forward slowly. Chen Xujun had already crossed the rejection of the horse and was killed with the Huaixi army.
Push aside the resistance of the spear and lance, cross the rejection horse, and move away from the rejection horse. Impact, impact, impact again, lift, chop, lift, chop. Dial away, thrust, push away, thrust. The task of the soldiers is simple, but the task of the generals is troublesome.
Zhang Boliang was anxious to organize a surprise attack, standing behind the formation, and wherever he reported that he could not support it, he sent a small group of soldiers to offset the tremendous and comprehensive pressure exerted by the officers and troops with a temporary numerical superiority. The left and right flanks of the officers and troops had already taken advantage of the melee to press up. A puff of blood sprayed out, and the soldiers standing in the first few rows could already feel that the ground beneath their feet had become slippery.
Surprise attack, counter-assault, the officers and troops are looking for the weak links in the Huaixi military formation, and the Huaixi army is observing where the defense officers and troops will organize a surprise attack. Rush away, close, kill in, encircle and annihilate, the cold wind blows slowly from the north of the plain, but no one notices in the center of the battlefield, the moment of deciding life and death, it is possible to be greeted by several weapons at any time, there is only one life, who would dare to be distracted? The soldiers slowly became numb, the front only knew how to slash and stab, and the back only knew that there was a vacancy and went forward to fill it, and when there was a gap, they put the guy in their hand to drink blood.
Slowly, from the clear distinction to the middle circle of blood red, to the blood red circle is expanding more and more, as the soldiers continue to fall, as Wang Peixian and Zhang Boliang feel that there are fewer and fewer soldiers available in their hands, the soldiers on both sides are unconsciously mixed together, no matter which side of the soldiers cut down an enemy army, they will find that the front is the back of their own robes, and their enemies seem to be behind their backs.