Chapter 350: Attack and Defend Linjin Pass
Listen to the sect! After. Muttering! "Lu Bu, it's really that strong......
Zhang Xiuji nodded and said, "The number one military general in the world, how can he be a wasted person." ”
After Ma Xing, he suddenly asked, "Why are you telling me this?" ”
Zhang Xiu said with a smile: "In Liangzhou, you and Ling Ming are invincible, after entering Guanzhong, you have fought with me, Han Sheng, Zilong, and their martial arts have made great progress in a short period of time, but this is not the apex, your stage should be the world, and the heroes of the world, Lu Bu is now the world's martial arts." You shouldn't be buried in Liangzhou. After speaking, Zhang Xiu looked at the horse steadily.
After hearing this, the horse suddenly realized, "How do you know? ”
Zhang Xiu chuckled lightly and said, "Since your father voted for me, I'm afraid that you have already risen to the heart of seclusion." You have pride, but this is only the appearance of pride, and your father also said that defeat is not terrible, and you can start again if you lose. But if you are in seclusion, it is not pride, but evasion. In fact, you should know that none of your Ma family has the ability to dominate the world, because the hegemony of the world depends not only on martial arts, but also on civil governance. The importance of Wenzhi is far above martial arts, relying on martial arts alone, it may be in the limelight for a while, even if it can unify the world, the final result will only be like Qin, short-lived. You and the people of your Ma family, all have the talent of generals, you can expand the territory, and now in troubled times, you may be able to dominate the party, but it is too difficult for you to unify the world. You ask yourself, in the past year, can you make achievements in the right Fufeng? It is not desolate, and then look at Jingzhao Chang'an, in just one year, it has been well governed, and the people have been kept warm and full. ”
In the end, Zhang Xiu said: "Think about it yourself, whether you are ready to escape and go into seclusion, or help me, the conference is the best in the world." Speaking of this, Zhang Xiu put down the wine jar and strode away.
It's just that the net has taken a few steps, and the horse shouted: "Lu Bu, aren't you known as the number one in the world?" It's up to me to defeat you! ”
Zhang Xiu stopped, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He smiled, then strode out of the courtyard again.
Zhang Xiu's army began to return to the division, and the situation under the Linjin Pass was a bit critical, after Han Sui's army retreated to Anyi, the army returned to Pujin and confronted the Linjin Pass across the river. Han Sui collected boats in the counties east of the river and prepared to cross the river to recapture Linjin Pass, but he did not succeed for several days. The original design of Linjin Pass was to prevent the army from crossing the Yellow River west and attacking Guanzhong, so Xu Huang's defense was very easy. However, this situation changed after the arrival of Cheng Yin's army, and Xu Huang, who was stationed at Jin Pass, faced a front and back attack similar to when he attacked the fortification.
And return the time to the sixth day, before Zhang Xiu broke the horse army with water.
Under the Linjin Pass, Cheng Yin's 20,000 fine horsemen looked at the camp in front of him steadily. Xu Huang has led the troops for many years, so naturally he will not be stupid enough to be trapped in the Linjin Pass, knowing that there is no danger on the east side of the west side of the pass, he set up a large camp under the pass early, and sent soldiers to the nearby woods to cut wood before Cheng Yin's army arrived, so as to make rows of rejecting horses, and the excess was transported to the pass to make rolling logs. For the purpose of guarding the customs. Therefore, what is now in front of Cheng Yin is a row of rejecting horses in front of the camp under the city, and more than 10,000 soldiers under Xu Huang's department are defending after rejecting horses, and there are 20,000 soldiers on the gate to prevent Han Sui's army from crossing the river to attack.
Xu Huang's arrangement can be said to be exquisite, there is a large battalion under the city to defend, and there are rows of rejecting horses, Cheng Yin's department is all cavalry, and he wants to break the rejecting horse formation and then break the big battalion. It's not so easy, and there is a large army on top of the city, to prevent Han Sui's army from crossing the river, and it is definitely not easy for the two armies of Fusui to break through the Jinguan Pass. But in doing so, there is actually a big problem, that is, grain and grass. There was not much grain in Linjin Pass, and Xu Huang's army drove out from Chang'an, in order to solve the danger in Hedong, it has always been a rapid march, and there is not much grain and grass. Although after the capture of Linjin Pass, Chang'an transported a lot of grain and grass when Cheng Yin's army did not arrive, but the army was quite numerous, Xu Huang calculated, the grain and grass on the pass was only enough for ten days, and because it was late autumn at this time, the weather was cold, the soldiers needed more food than in the summer, and the soldiers had to fight, so the grain and grass that could usually support ten days could not actually be done.
Cheng Yin was in the middle of the formation, looking at the rows of rejected horses at Linjin Pass, showing hideous collision horns, and suddenly had a headache. Xu Huang's army set up a large camp early, and the foot soldiers guarded the camp, and set up a large number of rejecting horses, which was the only way to deal with cavalry attacks. Cheng Yin looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any big flaws in the horse rejection array set up by Xu Huang, sighed, and ordered: "Set up a big camp first." Then he recruited his own guards and ordered him to cross the Yellow River in the north, and report the situation here to Han Sui in Hedong, so that Han Sui could decide. Compared with Yang Qiu, Cheng Yin obviously did not have the decisiveness that a general should have, and he had to ask Han Sui for orders when he was on the front line.
On the top of the city, Xu Huang saw that Cheng Yin did not attack after the formation, so he immediately collected his troops and immediately stopped, exhaled lightly, and ordered: "Pass the order, arrange twice as many people on duty, monitor the enemy army, and do not relax." ”
The adjutant general heard it and responded: "No! ”
Here Cheng Yin reported to Fu Sui, but it was delayed for half a day, Han Sui heard that Cheng Yin had to report this to himself, and immediately became angry and scolded: "He is so stupid? If the enemy army sets up a horse rejection array, can't it be broken with fire oil and rockets? And go back and tell Cheng Yin that no matter what method is used, no matter how much is lost, you must take Linjin Pass as soon as possible and resume grain transportation.
Cheng Yin's guards went back and told Cheng Yin what Han Sui said, at this time the sky had darkened, and Cheng Yin suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Hurriedly ordered: "Prepare fire oil and rockets, it will be of great use!" ”
The oil was soon prepared, and the back of the arrow was tied with a hemp rope soaked in fire oil, as long as the hemp rope was lit with a torch, it was a rocket, and it was shot out because the hemp rope was soaked in fire oil, and the wind would not extinguish it.
Cheng Yin commanded five hundred knights and asked them to each take an urn of fire oil. Under the firelight, I saw Cheng Yin smile and said, "Listen." Take these 500 urns of fire oil and rush to the enemy's position. Speaking of this, Cheng Yin's face suddenly turned pale when he saw the five hundred horsemen.
Cheng Yin snorted angrily and said, "You cowards, would you have been told to die now?" Seeing that the concubine's hundred horsemen all lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at themselves, Cheng Yin smiled proudly and said: "Each of you takes the fire oil in your hands, rushes to the front of the enemy army, throws the fire oil into the horse rejection formation, and you can return." ”
Hearing what Cheng Yin said, the five hundred cavalry breathed a sigh of relief, although they might be hit by the enemy's arrow rain. It's not a death-defying game. And these 500 people are all picked out by Cheng Yin from the army, and it is not a certain death, and the fighting spirit of the 500 people began to rise. Hearing Cheng Yin's order, and seeing the rockets that had not yet been ignited around him, the five hundred people did not know Cheng Yin's intentions, they were fools, and knew that if they could destroy the enemy's horse rejection array. And they did a great job.
Come to think of it. Five hundred people responded almost in unison: "No."
Cheng Yin nodded and said to them, "Out!" ”
Five hundred horsemen rushed to the front camp where all the torches had been extinguished, and the gate of the front camp was quietly opened, and the five hundred horsemen quietly rushed out of the front camp, and then rushed towards Xu Huang's camp.
The distance between the two armies was not very far, and the horses were all galloping, and the five hundred horsemen rushed to the front of the horse rejection formation in less than a cup of tea, but because there was no fire in front of the horse rejection formation. The sky was covered with dark clouds, and the moon and stars were covered by dark clouds, which made it extremely dark in front of the horse rejection array. With one hand, he threw the oil urn into the horse rejection array, and while reining in his horse and preparing to flee to the side.
"Shhh
Although the horse's mouth was tied, the neighing could still be heard, and the sound was clearly audible in the darkness and silence. A large number of horses were reined in, and a series of low neighs came out. The defenders in the camp immediately reacted, that is, the army led by Xu Huang were all recruits, so they let the five hundred cavalry approach, if it was a veteran, it would have already appeared, and there was no need to wait until the enemy reined in the war horse and neighed before the enemy was approaching. However, the general Xu Huang arranged to command on the front line was a veteran, and when he heard the neighing of the war horses, he naturally knew that the enemy was coming. Shoot the arrows! ”
Although Xu Huanglian's recruits have many habits of recruits, they still have their good side, that is, they abide by military discipline. Xu Huang asked the soldiers to strengthen the guard, none of them dared to relax, they were too impressed by the previous battle, knowing that if they did not obey the military order on the battlefield, I was afraid that death would come in the next moment, so the soldiers on the front line did not leave the bow and arrow, and listened to the general's command, and hurriedly pulled out the big bow and put on the sharp arrow.
"Woohoo
At the sound of the order, sharp arrows flew out, and it was impossible to see how many there were in the darkness, but these sharp arrows were enough to form a rain of arrows to cover the five hundred cavalry that rushed to cover the attack.
"Ding,"Dang,"Poof,"
"Shhh
In the darkness, the sound of a rain of arrows hitting the stomach of the armor, the sound of being picked apart by weapons and the sound of sharp arrows shooting into flesh, as well as the screams of people and the neighing of war horses, these sounds came and went, intertwined into the unique vocal music of the battlefield.
However, these five hundred cavalry soldiers are all the elite selected by Cheng Yin from the army, and they have long been prepared for the soldiers in Xu Huang's camp to attack with a rain of arrows, although the sharp arrows are intensive, but these veterans of a hundred battles have long sharpened the means of listening to and distinguishing their positions in the battlefield, and know where the arrow rain is about to hit them, so the weapon can't stop waving to block the sharp arrows, and the body can't help but dodge. But that was just an instinctive reaction, and there weren't many soldiers who actually died under the rain of arrows.
Although the rain of arrows did not cause major casualties to the five hundred cavalrymen, the rain of arrows hit in a timely manner, the war horse is not a human, whether it is a shot or not, the war horse will feel pain, and the pain will do one thing in addition to neighing. That's running wild.
Many war horses hit by the rain of arrows began to gallop wildly, they didn't care that there were no people or war horses in front of them, and they ran wildly when they came up. The war horse only knows how to gallop, and does not know what is in front of it, but how can the riders not know that there are rows of rejected horses in front, thinking of the hideous collision angle, if the war horse runs wildly and hits the sharp collision angle of the rejection horse, the end can be imagined.
The horsemen were experienced, and they felt that the horses were galloping, so they immediately grabbed the reins, slowed down the forward rush of the horses, and kept trying to turn the horse's head, but their actions were in vain, the horses were frightened in the dark, their bodies were shot by sharp arrows in pain, and their feet ran wildly, and they ran straight towards the horse!
"Poof...... Click... bang
"Shhh...... Roar..."
The sound of the war horse crashing into the sharp corners of the rejected horse was clearly audible, and in addition to the sound of flesh inserted, the sound of broken bones was also heard by the soldiers after the rejection. The strong momentum of the war horse broke many places in the rejection of the horse at once, and the muffled sound did not stop coming out, and at the same time, the last sorrow before the death of the war horse and the screams of the riders on the war horse could not help but come.
The commander of the battalion saw that the enemy's war horses were frightened and crashed into the horses under the rain of arrows, and immediately rejoiced, and hurriedly ordered in a loud voice: "Prepare the archers, release the arrows!" Shoot the arrows! Don't stop "Shoot the arrows!" ”
"Whoa, who
The rain of arrows shot out one after another, and although it was impossible to see the number and specific location of the enemy in the darkness, the neighing of the enemy's war horses could not help but come, and the commander asked the soldiers to shoot to that side, and at the same time let a small number of soldiers shoot to other places to test whether there were any enemy troops in other places.
Seeing that Xu Huang's camp kept releasing sharp arrows, the cavalry in the back had already seen that the situation was wrong, these were all veterans, and the battlefield would naturally not be stupid and desperate, one of the cavalry raised his hand and threw out the oil urn in his hand, and he didn't know if he fell into the horse rejection array in the dark, he didn't look at it, and when he didn't enter the place covered by the arrow rain, he reined in the war horse, turned the horse's head and went back.
There is more than one shrewd veteran, and many of the horsemen who rushed behind did so. Suddenly, a horseman in front of him shouted and scolded, "Which bastard threw the oil urn on Lao Tzu." ”
His words reminded the cavalry behind, so the cavalry behind couldn't help but throw the oil urn in his hand forward, and then turned the horse's head and ran back, so that the battlefield began to be a little chaotic, and the war horse in front was hit by the rain of arrows, and crashed into the horse rejection array like crazy. The cavalry behind was afraid of death, so he threw away the oil urn and ran.