Huainan Bingge interlude
The scorching sun was high, and the scorching breath had long permeated the inside and outside of the imperial city, and the fighting men had already sweated through their clothes and pants. The 800 armored cavalry of the tun cavalry battalion are all double horses, one riding and one holding the armor blade, except that there are no auxiliaries, the armored cavalry of the tun cavalry battalion has been called fully equipped.
When Meng Ping led the eight hundred cavalry to the battlefield where the two armies were handed over, unexpectedly the Huai army stood on the upper hand, and the Yulin Zuo Zhonglang general Ling Hu Sheng was sweeping thousands of soldiers and horses to continuously press the enemy front.
Meng Ping looked at Ling Hu Sheng's command from afar, and saw thousands of men and horses from different armies advancing and retreating under his command, and the changes in the military formation were smooth and orderly, so he also admired the talent of this Ling Hu general in his heart, and then he snorted coldly: "All dismount and walk." The eight hundred armor riders then dismounted one after another, and when they got on the horse, they should be in armor and break the formation.
Linghu Sheng was originally ordered to control the east gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and under his command there were 1,000 people from the left army of the headquarters of Yulin, and 1,000 people from the left guard of the East Palace. When the news of the loss of the arsenal came, 500 reinforcements were sent from the north and south, and 600 men and horses from Feng Yun and Zhang Xin were transferred by Chenghuamen to support, and the total number of soldiers and horses under Ling Husheng was 3,600. He left the old foundation of the 500 Yulin Left Army to continue to guard the east gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the remaining 3,000 men and horses were all invested in recovering the arsenal.
The front line of the battle between the two armies was not far behind, and Hu Sheng calmly dispatched his troops and horses, "Order Hu Ben to step forward, let General Feng withdraw, and order the Donggong Guard to stabilize the front, not to rush, and wait for the Hu Ben army." "Let Donggong Wei wait a little longer, and the Tiger Ben army will strive to move forward." "Order the Fengyun Department to attack from the junction of the Donggong Guard and the Tiger Ben Army, and the Yulin Army is ready to respond." With the repeated movements of General Linghu, the Huai army kept killing and wounding the enemy soldiers, and the front always pressed forward.
The battle with the Huainan soldiers under the command of Linghu Sheng was fought by the four armies on the left and right, as well as the men and horses of the Yi army and the Yue cavalry. After Gong Sheng and others seized the arsenal, they were supplemented with weapons, and these soldiers and horses were replenished with a lot of manpower. After Chen An repelled the advance of the Huainan Army's counterattack, these people squeezed to the front with their soldiers and horses to grab the position of the striker, so that Chen An had to retreat the whole column to avoid being chaotic.
At this time, Liu Feng, the temporary commander of the Yi military camp, looked at the constantly oppressed front, and his heart burst into flames: Could it be that I can't wait for Gong Sheng, and that guy really can't win this great achievement? Hmph, the people in the Yue Cavalry Camp are also a nest.
The two commanders of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, Gao Zhong and Hu Guang, were still pressing the formation, but this time they added soldiers and divided a hundred people to the front to participate in the battle. Gao Chong looked at the fighting front and said to Hu Guang: "These clowns who have taken refuge in Sima Yun are vulnerable, and sooner or later they will be tied up in the vegetable market and beheaded, what do you say, old Hu?" ”
Hu Guang laughed: "Lao Gao, what you said is true." Linghu Sheng's jumping clown didn't know the current affairs, and he rebelled against the king of Huainan, and in vain he found an errand for the top five grades, and in the end, it wasn't a bamboo basket to draw water? In the end, the vacant seat came out, and it was not left for us? Speaking of which, the one named Liu Feng in the Yi military camp is also a clever person who understands the way of a gentleman. ”
Liu Feng, who is known as knowing the way of a gentleman, is paying attention to the current battle situation, more precisely, watching his general Wang Bo run back from the front line again, his fat figure swaying like a stupid bear.
Wang Bo ran to Liu Feng behind the formation and gasped and said: "Brother Feng, it's not okay to go on like this, let's stay in Qingshan without worrying about the lack of firewood, we have to think about the way back!" ”
Liu Feng looked at Wang Bo, and was dissatisfied with the fat man's escape again, but Liu Gongcao was overjoyed and angry, he stomped his feet, and scolded in his mouth: "Behind is Gong Sheng's person!" "Isn't it? I want to run, but the back road is cut off. If you want to hide, there is nowhere to go. If you want to defect, I don't know if the knife on the other side of the person recognizes you.
Wang Bo looked at the generals of the armies who were also hiding behind the formation and whispered again: "Brother Feng, look, this old man of the Fourth Army is also hiding behind." When we run, we can't get behind! "We don't need to run faster than tigers, but we have to be faster than our teammates!
Liu Feng nodded approvingly and said, "Yes, you go to the front again to supervise the battle, try to bring the team back, go." "Xiao Wang, I helped you up at the beginning, and now the time has come to use you.
Wang Bo immediately seemed to be suffering from eating Coptis chinensis, and he hugged his fists: "Brother Feng, don't worry, I'll go." "Brother Feng, why are you doing this to me? In vain, I helped you squeeze out Gong Sheng's house.
Wang Bo had no choice but to run back to the front of the formation again, Zhu Huawei had already been looking at him hiding behind the formation, and when he saw him running back to the front of the formation, he immediately greeted him: "General Wang, you are back." ”
Wang Bo stretched out his hand and patted Zhu Huawei's shoulder and interrupted him: "Don't talk about those useless ones, remember to hurry up when you run for a while, but the military flag will be the last to go." ”
Zhu Huawei immediately responded: "I'll go and ask the flag!" As he spoke, he was about to step forward, but he saw that the enemy soldiers in front of him suddenly moved out of the way, and his vision was brightened, and then he saw the cavalry.
"It's cavalry!" "Run!" "Array!" "Armor Riding Outfit!" "Run!" "Ironclad cavalry!" "Don't mess around!" All kinds of shouts rang out, and there was a noticeable tremor on the ground, this was the heavy cavalry of the cantonment battalion finally appeared.
Wang Bo was about to slip away as soon as his feet were soft, but he suddenly found that his military flag was gone, and he immediately asked Zhu Huawei: "Where is the flag?" "The military flag that was said to be removed at the end!
Zhu Huawei's eyes swept away, the banners of the Fourth Army and the Yue Cavalry Battalion were still there, except for the battle flag of his own Yi military camp, only to see a thin and short soldier flexibly pounce out of the front array, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw himself, and then the little soldier spoke: "Adults go quickly, small ones cover you." ”
Zhu Huawei was speechless, this little soldier was sent by him to play the flag, and he usually looked clever and sensible, so he arranged for him to hold the flag. Zhu Huawei choked for a moment, and then said to Wang Bo: "General, don't worry so much, thirty-six strategies are the best policy!" ”
Wang Bo knew that it was not the time to care, he opened his legs and turned around and ran, but he was wide and fat, and he couldn't go fast anyway, and he didn't run a few steps before he heard a scream behind him, "Ah! "Help!" "Ahhhhh , The killing and screaming stimulated Wang Bo's eardrums, and the image of the person who fell to the ground being trampled by the war horse shook in his heart, so the fear erupted irrepressibly from the bottom of his heart.
Wang Bo almost ran with all his strength, his big belly was quite high, his legs were eager to turn into wheels, and his heart seemed to jump out of his chest in the violent running. 'Run! Come on! I can't die! I finally became an official! I can't die! Wang Bo couldn't stop shouting in his heart.
"Ahh One soldier screamed, the horse's hooves stomping over his palm, his hands twisting like chicken feet. His thighs were already dripping with blood, and it was obvious that he couldn't stand up from the injury, so he could only climb, but how could he escape if he climbed. "Whew..." A spear pierced the soldier as he tried to escape, and a whimper came out of his mouth, but he couldn't say a full word, only a large patch of blood poured out.
Meng Ping had already stopped at the horse, he hung up the horse lance, and inserted the horizontal knife back into the scabbard at his waist. The enemy soldiers had already broken up, and there was no need for him, the lieutenant of the cavalry, to continue to charge and kill. Ling Hu Sheng commanded several soldiers and horses to dispatch in turns, and it was very appropriate for his armored cavalry to give way to the rushing and killing exit, and the lethality of hundreds of iron cavalry erupted in an instant, destroying all resistance in front of him. Mencius inevitably took a high look at the military level of this Linghu general in his heart.
Linghu Sheng drove the horse over, Meng Ping looked at this Linghu general, and saw that Linghu Shengsheng's face was square and wide, a fan circle Hu was even more rugged, the whole body was covered by fish scale armor, and the war horse under the crotch was covered with a pair of black cowhide armor. Ling Husheng only wore a sword on his waist, and there were no more fighting weapons to carry on the horse, so it was obviously not easy to be brave.
Ling Husheng also looked at Meng Ping, he saw that this Captain Meng was wearing a dark blue hood, with three red feathers swaying in the wind, which was majestic, and he secretly praised the heroic and extraordinary in his heart. He drove his horse forward and said, "Captain Meng's iron horse is so powerful, it is really breathtaking. ”
Meng Ping laughed: "If it weren't for General Linghu's dispatch, I, the sons, would have the intention to kill the enemy, and I would have nowhere to use my strength if I was afraid." ”
Ling Husheng then sighed and said, "Next, we have to rely on General Meng's cavalry." ”
Meng Ping replied angrily: "The matter of serving the prince, just follow the orders!" ”
When Meng Ping was talking with Ling Husheng, the Huai army forward was sweeping away the remnants of the army while re-lining up on the captured streets, and the position of the enemy soldiers on the opposite side gradually stabilized after receiving the rout, the two armies were not far apart, and the battle was still imminent.
Gong Sheng looked at Meng Ping on the high-distance horse and frowned and said, "Mencius is my old friend and the eldest son of General Meng Guan. After speaking, he frowned and said nothing, of course, he didn't want to meet the old man.
Tai Shiyu suggested: "Shoot people first and shoot horses, Yuan Yong has a magic bow in hand, you can give it a try." Then he explained, "I also have an old covenant with my son, and it is really inconvenient to shoot this arrow." In his opinion, it is the best strategy for Murong Han, who does not know Meng Ping, to snipe.
"As soon as the cavalry rushes, I am afraid that the first formation may not be able to resist, and it is not a joke to collapse." It was Chen Daowei who spoke.
Tai Shiyu then asked him: "What do you think?" ”
Chen An stroked the big knife in his hand and said awe-inspiringly: "Riding with horseback, I led people to break his cavalry." ”
Gong Sheng, Tai Shiyu, and Murong Han looked at each other, but before they could answer, Duan Wenyang had already spoken loudly: "There is no need for General Chen to go into battle, just let me go out!" It's just that after I broke the cavalry in front of me, I still have to trouble Brother Chen to lead the infantry to respond. ”
As soon as Chen An heard this, he immediately argued with Duan Wenyang, and after some arguments, it was finally decided that Duan Wenyang would ride to break the enemy, Chen An would lead the infantry to cover and kill, and Murong Han would follow the strategy of reserving the bow, and as for Gong Sheng and Tai Shiyu, they would press the formation for the three of them in the back.
The plan was decided, and Gong Sheng and the others immediately ordered the cavalry. However, after all, the battle was in a hurry, and now there were only forty-eight pieces of armor in the formation, not counting the generals, and the cavalry in the formation had never been trained to wear armor and collide with the formation. Therefore, Duan Wenyang had to lead the forty-eight cavalry that had never been trained to defeat the 800 heavy armored cavalry of the Tun cavalry camp opposite.
Duan Wenyang was dressed in silver armor, the white tassels on his head were moving, the white horse neighed under his crotch, a long lance was hung on the side of the horse, and a silver-patterned iron shield was hung on the other side.
The forty-eight pieces of horse armor were all draped, and the forty-eight knights who got on the horse were all selected, but Gong Sheng saw that they all had a fearful look on their faces, and he couldn't help but be secretly anxious in his heart: "It's a pity that it's inconvenient for me to go into battle by myself, but these people are too few, if there is any mistake in Baxian, wouldn't it be worth the loss?" ’
Duan Wenyang looked at the opposite side, the hundreds of armored cavalry of the Tun cavalry battalion did not dismount, they stopped safely not far behind the array of enemy foot soldiers, if the foot soldiers of the two armies gave way to the avenue, there was really only one charging distance. He smiled and asked a knight beside him, "Are you afraid?" ”
The knight who was asked by Duan Langjun was dressed in a fine cold-forged fish scale armor, and the iron mask had already fallen, and he said loudly in a neutral voice through the cold iron mask: "Don't be afraid!" "Yet he complained in his heart: 'How can you not be afraid?' General Duan: There are less than fifty of us! On the other side, there were hundreds of cavalry! Are you really going to rush with us like this? I had gone to know what was going on like this, and now I haven't even slept with a woman, alas. ’
Duan Wenyang smiled heartily and asked the knight again, "What's your name?" ”
The knight replied again with a full sense of anger: "Return to the general, subordinates are entering!" ”
Duan Wenyang laughed: "When you break the enemy, I will invite you to drink when I turn around!" Then he rode forward without looking back.
Xiao Jin looked at Duan Langjun's side face through the strict iron face, and for a moment he only felt that General Duan's eyebrows were full of unrestrained spirit, there was a faint flash of divine edge in his eyes, and a trace of pride secretly rose in his heart, and he couldn't help but sneer lightly in his heart: "What are you afraid of?" It's just a big scar at the mouth of the bowl! Follow General Duan today, this rich man is going to be decided! ’