Chapter 81: The Battle of Wushan

When Jiang Wei led an army of 100,000 Qiang tribes to besiege Longxi City. Zhuge Zhan is leading a large army and is stationed in Wushan.

At this time, Zhuge Zhan had a total of 10,000 soldiers and horses. They are 8,000 Wudu garrisons, and 2,000 Baier troops.

Zhuge Zhan's task was to block Cao Wei's army for three days, and according to Zhuge Zhan's strategy, he would set up an ambush where Cao Wei's army in Longxi must pass.

In any case, he had to hold back the enemy for three days, and he had already received information from the sentry horse that Jiang Wei led an army of 100,000 and had surrounded Longxi City. As long as Zhuge Zhan dragged Cao Wei's army in Wudu City for three days, Jiang Wei would definitely break through Longxi City.

Wushan is a not too high mountain, located on the bank of Weishui, and at the bottom of the mountain is the official road connecting Longxi and Tianshui.

In order to strengthen the garrison of Wushan, Xiao Zhuge commanded the soldiers to dig several trenches at the foot of Wushan Mountain according to the arrangement of Qimen Dunjia, and used the extra soil and stones to form an earth and stone formation, thus forming a simplified version of the eight arrays.

In the Shu army of Wudu City, there were 3,000 crossbowmen, 2,000 sword and shield men, and 3,000 pikemen.

In addition, the 2,000 White Ear Army were all super-long spear phalanxes, especially good at fighting cavalry.

A phalanx of extra-long spears that is the nemesis of any cavalry.

Not long after Zhuge Zhan had just set up the defense, a sentry came to report that Cao Wei's army was less than thirty miles away from Wushan.

This time, Cao Wei's army was exhausted, with a total of about 50,000 enemy troops. It also had a large number of cavalry.

The main general of the reinforcements was Guo Huai, the assassin of Yongzhou, and Cao Wei's Dongxiang princess Cao Aya, as well as Xiahou Ba and Wen Yuan, all participated in the expedition.

When they heard that the enemy army had 50,000 troops, Zhuge Zhan and Fu Yan both gasped in unison.

Neither of them knew if they could resist the Wei army for three days, but at this moment, all worries became superfluous, and they could only fight to the death with the belief that they would die.

An hour later, the vanguard army of the Wei army had arrived at the foot of Wushan Mountain.

Zhuge Zhan immediately ordered: The whole army is on alert! Without his orders, you are not allowed to rush into action.

It didn't take long for Cao's cavalry to arrive, rolling up billowing dust and smoke.

The vanguard cavalry alone was about 5,000 people, and these 5,000 cavalry galloped quickly on the official road, without noticing the ambush of the Shu army under Zhuge Zhan.

When the vanguard force passed halfway, Xiao Zhuge suddenly gave an order:

"Crossbowmen, salvo!"

In an instant, the sound of arrows missing salvos was endless, and the salvo of arrows fell like a torrential rain, knocking down a large area of enemy troops in the Wei cavalry.

The vanguard general of the Wei army, Xiahou Ba, saw that there was an ambush on Wushan, and quickly ordered to stop the advance, first withdraw from the range of the Shu army, and then rearrange the defense.

The cavalry quickly beat their horses out of the range of the Shu army, quickly regrouped, and sorted out the formation, turned their horses' heads one after another, and lined up towards the mountain.

Zhuge Zhan saw that the cavalry of the Wei army was under the rain of arrows, and they were reorganized in a short period of time, instead of being in chaos when they encountered an ambush, and he admired it a little in his heart:

"It seems that this cavalry in front of you is really Cao Wei Yongzhou's elite soldiers!"

So he hurriedly ordered Fu Yan: "General Fu, please lead two thousand Bai'er troops to battle in front of the crossbowmen, and prepare to meet Cao Wei's cavalry!" ”

Fu Yan hurriedly surrendered his hand to receive the order: "Obey!" ”

And then an order!

"Up!"

The Bai'er Army, which had been lying in ambush on the ground, suddenly stood up neatly, and suddenly a spear phalanx of 100 people appeared on the gentle slope of the mountainside.

"Array!" Fu Yi shouted.

The white-eared army, which was originally pointing at the tip of the spear, put down the super long spear one after another.

The soldiers of the White Ear Army were all dressed in iron armor, holding a small shield in their left hand and a two-zhang long spear in their right hand, the soldiers in the first four rows were facing forward with their spears flat, and the soldiers in the back six rows were slanting their spears upward.

The entire phalanx is formed in a solid dense formation, forming a row of spear arrays in front of the phalanx, and the tips of Sensen's spears are densely packed, giving people a strong sense of deterrence.

Xiahou Ba had never seen this army, nor had he ever seen an army formed like this, in the past, when the infantry fought against the cavalry, there would be spears and swords and shields arranged in a tight formation to prevent the cavalry from impacting, but it was the first time he had seen such a long spear.

But no matter what he was facing, his own Great Wei's Yongzhou Iron Cavalry could crush all the infantry.

So Xiahou Ba shouted:

"Arrange the formation, arrange the formation, and prepare to attack the mountain!"

The cavalry quickly lined up in a long formation to gain the maximum attacking surface, hoping to completely disperse the strange infantry in front of them with a single charge.

Xiahou Ba carefully looked at the infantry in front of him equipped with super long spears, the number of which was not more than 2,000 people, and even if his own unit was hit by the rain of arrows and was somewhat damaged, there were more than 4,500 cavalry, and it would not be a problem to crush the department in front of him.

Seeing that the whole cavalry team had been completed, he shouted loudly!

"Cavalry assault! Crush them! ”

Immediately, among the Wei army, a horn sounded for a charge, and thousands of cavalry, with the momentum of overwhelming the mountains and seas, charged up the hillside.

When Cao Wei's iron cavalry rolled up the smoke and dust and rushed up the mountainside, Cao Wei's cavalry was not afraid even in the face of the sharp spear point, because under normal circumstances, as long as the iron cavalry was together, the enemy's formation would collapse as soon as it rushed.

However, the pikemen in front of them all seemed to be fearless, holding the spears tightly in their hands, and looking at the rolling iron horsemen with resolute eyes.

Cao Wei's iron cavalry surged forward like a torrent, and the Shu Han spear array stood still like a stone wall, and the two armies each showed a very high will to fight.

Suddenly, "Boom! With a bang, Cao Wei's iron cavalry slammed into the spear phalanx of the Shu army's Bai'er army.

A two-zhang long spear in the hand of a white-eared soldier quickly pierced the armor of a cavalryman who was charging at a rapid pace, and pierced directly into the chest of the cavalryman, the Wei cavalryman's eyes widened in disbelief, since he had not been able to rush to the enemy in the slightest, he was pierced through the body by the spear.

The same situation kept happening in front of the two armies, because the White Ear Army was equipped with super long spears, and it was basically difficult for the cavalry of the Wei army to rush to the side of the White Ear Army, even if they were squeezed by the cavalry from behind to the side of the White Ear Army, the spears protruding from the depth of the White Ear Army formation would instantly pierce the body of the cavalry.

Very few cavalrymen with super horsemanship jumped up and jumped into the phalanx, and they were also assassinated by the white-eared soldiers in the back row with spears in their hands!

The Cao Wei cavalry, who originally thought that they could easily defeat the infantry phalanx of the Shu army, suddenly encountered a one-sided massacre!

The dense pike-phalanx of the White Ear Army not only successfully resisted the first round of Cao Wei's cavalry charge, but also gained the upper hand in the ensuing hand-to-hand combat, stabbing Cao Jun's cavalry on the ground continuously.

Xiahou Ba looked at everything in front of him in disbelief, Since he joined the army, he has led the cavalry to be invincible, and he has never encountered such a battle situation, which made him a little dazed for a while!

After falling into hand-to-hand combat, the advantage of the Wei cavalry's impact power was gone, and Xiahou Ba clearly saw that the Shu army on the mountain began to shoot arrows again, this time by projectile, far above the head of the Shu army's array, and ruthlessly shooting the cavalry that rushed up after him.

And on both flanks of the battle line, infantry also poured out and began to outflank the cavalry on the mountain.

Xiahou Ba was shocked, it seemed that there were quite a few Shu troops on the mountain, far more than he had expected about 3,000 people, looking at the formation in front of him, there must be at least 10,000 people.

Moreover, the Shu army was still condescending and took advantage of the geographical advantage, and the cavalry lost its high mobility and high impact power, and almost could not take any advantage.

Xiahou Ba never thought that he would face such a situation, but it was impossible for him to watch his cavalry being slaughtered, so he gritted his teeth and ordered:

"This battle is lost! Retire! ”

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