Chapter 108: Fierce Battle Outside the City
Liu An has now accumulated a total of 192 contribution points, and when the wartime lottery plate was unlocked, he drew five more times and ten times.
This time I was very lucky, every time the ten companies drew war horses, one of the ten companies even won the war horses twice, plus the rewards that came with the ten companies, Liu An had another 550 war horses in his inventory.
After that, the number of cavalry can be further increased.
Fighting with Xianbei, if it is a street fight, it is fine, but in the field, the infantry has little effect, and the cavalry can only be restrained by cavalry.
It is worth mentioning that the four times drawn this time have finally come in handy.
After the lottery, Liu An clearly felt that the mood of the soldiers and villagers around him had changed.
In the face of the surging attack of the Xianbei army, Liu An's corporal was better, after all, he had undergone strict training.
But the villagers were nervous and frightened, and the fierce name of Xianbei left an indelible impression in their hearts.
However, with the morale bonus of the persistent efforts, Liu An found that the fear on their faces was replaced by hatred.
Looking at the Xianbei army that could only see the shadows of people outside the city in the distance and rushed into their houses, the villagers seemed to think of their relatives and friends who died under their hands in the past years, the food they had harvested for a year but they did not work hard, and the home that was swept away like a locust crossing the border, a scene of ruin......
All this made the hearts of the villagers full of hatred for Xianbei, and they were eager to eat their flesh and drink their blood.
Zhang Liao is near Liu An and is responsible for the positioning of a medium-sized throwing car.
Recently, in addition to familiarizing himself with Liu An's military books, he has also painstakingly studied the structure and use of medium-sized throwing vehicles, and now he can accurately locate the range of stone bullets.
Affected by the system, his already resentful eyes showed a fiery killing intent, and he only hated that he couldn't go on the field to kill the Xianbei soldiers in person.
Seeing this, Liu An was relieved, and at this time he saw that a Xianbei army rushed into his manor outside the city.
But it still didn't take long to come out of it, and Liu An's manor had already been emptied, not to mention eating, there was not even a little bit of value.
There's no way he's going to leave anything for the Xianbei people!
After another quarter of an hour or so, the Xianbei people finally gave up the search outside the city, and the army assembled, slowly coming to the next mile of Jiuyuan City to look.
This medium-sized throwing car at this distance is completely useless, and the opponent does not have siege equipment, and it is impossible to easily approach the city wall.
Liu An pondered for a moment and ordered the city gate to be opened, ordering Zhang Fei and Lu Bu to line up outside the city gate.
The herald received Liu An's order and ran down the city wall to deliver the order.
The gate of the crunching Jiuyuan city slowly opened.
The Xianbei army, which had already retreated and planned to look elsewhere, or wait for the follow-up military supplies to arrive to build siege equipment, saw the city gate wide open, and stopped.
Then two groups of cavalry poured out from the city gate, and formed a battle formation outside the city gate.
The leader of Xianbei was a burly, bearded man named Bart, who stroked his thick beard and hesitated between attacking and retreating.
Since his journey south, he has felt the prying eyes many times, but he has never found anyone.
Now, combined with the empty residence outside Jiuyuan City, and the scene of the head of Jiuyuan City obviously fully prepared, Bart had reason to suspect that the peeping gaze he felt at that time must be a high-level scout sent by the other party.
And the 200 team he sent out to investigate last time has not heard any news so far, and most of them have been killed.
From this point of view, the Han Dynasty must have sent a great figure to garrison Jiuyuan this time!
However, such a person must understand that the advantage of the Han army is that there are walls to rely on, and it is the best policy to defend the city.
At this time, he opened the city gate and went out of the city to form a formation, which looked like a deception.
Liu An couldn't help but be disappointed when he saw that the city gate was wide open, and the enemy army was still unmoved, he didn't expect that the Xianbei people still had brains.
So Liu An ordered again to let Lu Bu go to fight the enemy, and then feigned defeat and retreated.
Lu Bu and Zhang Fei were both wearing the Jinluan battle armor drawn by Liu An's system at this time, and just talking about the specifications of the battle armor, the two of them were more like the supreme chief of Jiuyuan.
Lu Bu went to lure the enemy, but he didn't believe that the other party was not fooled.
Moreover, Lu Bu's whole body is hidden in armor, and his own strength is high, he is neither afraid of the opponent's hidden arrows, nor afraid of falling into the enemy formation, and he is completely able to get out and leave.
After the order was passed down, Lu Bu and the soldiers beside him exchanged weapons, and handed over the overlord's bow and arrows to him for safekeeping, and then drove his horse slowly out of the formation.
Thirty paces away from the enemy, Lu Bu raised the spear in his hand, pointed at the enemy, and shouted arrogantly:
"Turtles with shrunken heads, do any turtle grandchildren dare to come forward to fight?"
Lu Bu's voice was like a bell, and the words entered the enemy formation, which immediately aroused a commotion.
The martial arts of the Xianbei people are no worse than those of the border counties, a group of aggressive men, how can they withstand such a provocation by Lu Bu.
At that moment, dozens of people asked for battle, wanting to cut down the arrogant rats in front of the battle.
Bart was equally annoyed, and as the bravest warrior in the tribe, he also had the greatest temper in the tribe.
Suppressing the voices of everyone asking for battle, Bart raised his horsewhip and personally went out to meet Lu Bu.
In addition to killing the enemy general who insulted him on the spot, he also took a fancy to the gorgeous golden armor that the opponent was wearing.
None of his warriors was more powerful than him, and he was not at ease when he sent them into battle, so Bart was about to cut him down, strip off his armor, and put it on himself.
When Lu Bu saw that it was the leader of the other party who personally went out into battle, he had the idea of killing him for meritorious service.
After hesitating for a moment, the idea of obeying Liu An's order overpowered the desire to make meritorious contributions, and he waved his horsewhip and rode his horse to meet the other party.
After fighting with the other party for a while, Lu Bu roughly knew the level of force of the other party, which was about the same as Liu Bei.
He can lower his strength, pretend to be inferior to the opponent, and after seven or eight rounds of fighting, he will be suppressed.
After making a posture of trying his best to bounce off the opponent's ring sword, Lu Bu turned his horse's head and drove the war horse to flee to the main formation.
When Bart saw that the other party was going to escape, how could he let it go? He waved his horsewhip and chased after Lu Bu.
However, at this time, he realized that the speed of the opponent's war horse was on par with his own good horse, and his idea of catching up with the opponent with the speed of the horse was in vain.
Seeing that the distance between the other party and his own formation was getting closer and closer, Bart could only stop helplessly, raised the ring sword in his hand, and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Follow me into the city!" ”
Seeing his own army move, Bart drove his horse and charged again.
After a few breaths, Lu Bu returned to his own formation, exchanged weapons with his soldiers, and retrieved the overlord's bow and arrows.
At this time, Bart was only about fifty meters away from the city gate, and his soldiers also happened to be in the attack range of the medium-sized throwing car.
Liu An seized the opportunity and ordered: "Launch!" ”
On one side, the flag bearer waved the flag and conveyed the order.
Suddenly, with a thumping sound, stone projectiles shot out, and the overwhelming stone projectiles smashed into the Xianbei army that was rushing towards Jiuyuan City.
The Xianbei soldiers, who were galloping with their horses, saw an unknown object flying out of the city wall in front of him and smashing into his side.
When they raised their heads to look, they saw countless stone bullets falling from the sky, they were riding on horses, it was too late to turn the horse's head, and they were about to wave the horsewhip to speed up, but they were hit by the stone bullets in the next moment, and the people turned on their backs in an instant.
Among them, there are also highly knowledgeable, after seeing the dense stone bullets, they knew that they were afraid that they were going to die here this time, and their faces were like ashes in an instant.
Throwing the car is not only lethal, but also has a serious impact on morale, this stone bomb is dropped, the chaos of the Xianbei army is a foregone conclusion, and the other party will not let go of such a good opportunity if he is a person who knows the soldiers.
The Xianbei army mainly relied on strong cavalry to fight, and if you talk about military discipline and military regulations, it can be said that there is no more than the Han Dynasty.
With such a scattered army, in the face of a sudden stone bullet attack, what combat ability can it have under the chaos.
If the leader can organize the retreat in time, otherwise, defeat is a sure end.
On the north city wall, Liu An placed a total of 40 medium-sized throwing cars.
After a round of shooting, Liu An visually inspected the number of people who had fallen on the other side, at least two or three hundred.
Taking advantage of the time to throw the car and load the stone bullets, Zhang Fei and Lu Bu immediately ordered the launch of the repeater.
1,400 cavalrymen, each with a spear and a crossbow, Liu An also divided 650 horse armors equally among Lu Bu and Zhang Fei.
At this time, the cavalry in front of the formation, sitting down on the war horses, are all wearing heavy vests, not afraid of arrows.
With Zhang Fei and Lu Bu giving orders, the cavalry that had already been prepared fired their crossbows one after another.
Whoosh - Bart's horse, which was rushing to the front, was shot by a repeater, and the horse neighed, turning it off the horse.
Later, the soldiers who had already entered the range of the repeater were hit by the repeater, killing and wounding hundreds of people in an instant.
Bart was momentarily stunned, he hated the breathless self just now.
It was stupid to be provoked by someone to go up for two sentences, and to see the intention of getting rich, and wanting to swallow the opponent's armor!
But the most important thing is not here, it is not the first time he has been provoked, nor is it the first time he has seen wealth, what really makes him confused is the preparation of the other party.
He guessed that the other party might be cheating, but he didn't expect that the other party could come up with such a sharp weapon, throwing a car and a large number of crossbows.
With so many combat weapons, how rich is the other party? Or is the Han court ready to start another war against the steppe?
Bart can't take care of that much for the time being, he must return to his home camp as soon as possible, and then lead the army to retreat first.
Now that the army is in chaos, but the officers and soldiers have not left the city gate, how can this be fought? If you continue, I'm afraid you're going to plant it here.
Bart rolled and crawled, taking advantage of the gap between the opponent's loading and crossbowing, and finally ran to the front of the formation, and was about to call one of his men to dismount and hand over the horse to himself, whoosh-
There was the sound of a sharp blade cutting through the air behind him, and Bart turned his head in horror, his eyebrows just in time to meet the arrow that traveled dozens of meters and flew towards him.
Lu Bu slowly put away the overlord bow, hung it behind his back, and looked at Zhang Fei not far away, showing his smugness.
Zhang Fei kept looking at the enemy, and when he saw that the leader of the other party was suddenly shot in the head with a bow and arrow and died, he knew that it was Lu Bu who made a move.
Turning his head to look, he happened to see Lu Bu's smug face, and Zhang Fei shouted angrily.
"Shoot a crossbow, shoot me! I'm going to kill after shooting! ”
At this time, the soldiers had just finished loading their crossbows, and under Zhang Fei's urging, they shot their crossbows at the enemy formation.
And the local camp, after Bart's death, was already in chaos, and at this time, a burst of crossbow bolts flew in, which was even more chaotic.
The soldiers no longer obeyed the orders of their superiors, and their superiors no longer obeyed the orders of their superiors, let alone give orders to their subordinates, and hurriedly waved their horsewhips, eager to flee from this place.
Liu An stood at the head of the city, and saw that Lu Bu killed the leader of the other party with an arrow, and the Xianbei army was in chaos, and he originally wanted to order the throwing cart that had just been filled with stone bullets, but when he saw this, he retracted his thoughts.
He gave the herald an order to let Zhang Fei and Lu Bu charge and kill the enemy.
Liu An visually inspected that just one round of stone bullets, two rounds of crossbows went down, and the other party lost nearly one-fifth of the people, about a thousand.
That is, there are about 4,000 soldiers on the other side.
The enemy's forces are still superior to their own, and if they successfully withdraw and then organize themselves to attack, Liu An's soldiers will not be able to take advantage.
Therefore, Liu An must not let them evacuate successfully, and must take this opportunity to leave them all here.
After Zhang Fei and Lu Bu rushed out, Liu An sent an order to Cheng Ze, Liu Bei, and Gao Shun, leading the soldiers to gather at the north city gate and go out of the city to assist Zhang Fei and Lu Bu.
After the order was handed down, Liu An first led his own soldiers and the main guards on the north city wall to rush out of the city.
His own soldiers all had war horses, and they followed Liu An to catch up with the enemy army and assist Zhang Fei and Lu Bu.
At this time, the two of them were already crazy, both of them were armed with divine weapons, and when they collided with the enemy's weapons, they could directly cut off the opponent's blades, and they could penetrate each other's chests unabatedly, and none of them had a joint general.
After Liu An used the speed of the war horse to catch up with the Xianbei rout, he saw that the other party had no intention of fighting at all, and he was bent on fleeing for his life, so he shouted:
"The thief has been ambushed, and if you don't surrender at this time, you will wait for when!"
Randomly thought that there might be someone in the Xianbei army who did not understand Chinese, and found the Xianbei dead soldier who arranged to join the army, and asked him to persuade the enemy to surrender in Xianbei language.
The man shouted several times in succession, and when he saw that the Xianbei soldiers who could not escape were attacked, some people threw away their weapons one after another, dismounted and surrendered.
In the next two hours, Lu Bu and Zhang Fei both led cavalry, chased and killed all the way, and persuaded each other to surrender by the way.
Liu Bei Gaoshun and others took the foot soldiers, and when they saw that they couldn't catch up with the cavalry, they cleaned up the battlefield outside Jiuyuan City.
After cleaning up the main battlefield outside the city, he followed the route pursued by Lu Bu and Zhang Fei, all the way to the quilt, collecting dead bodies, war horses, and trophies along the way.
All the dead bodies, under Liu An's order, were uniformly arranged to be burned.
It was busy until late at night that the battle came to an end.
Liu An got the results of this battle from Liu Bei: more than 1,800 enemy soldiers were killed, 2,000 were captured, 3,200 horses were seized, and a number of weapons were collected.
More than 300 people were slightly injured and more than 100 were seriously injured, and no one died.
No one died...... When the other party met with him, he had already begun to flee, and the result that no one died was expected by Liu An, after all, the other party did not organize any effective counterattack at all.
And one thousand and eight enemies were killed, and two thousand six hundred were taken prisoner, that is, the remaining six hundred, all fled.
However, 600 people could no longer pose a threat to Liu An's cavalry.
But if these 600 people return to the grassland and pass the information here to the tribes of the grassland, and the tribes learn that the Han army is strong, they may unite to fight or resist Liu An.
But the people have already run away, the grassland is so big, it is impossible for Liu An to kill them all.
The only way is to try to weaken the Xianbei tribe before they unite.
After figuring it out, Liu An immediately gave Liu Bei an order, asking him to prepare grain and grass for baggage, and the day after tomorrow to pull out and kill into the grassland!
Then Liu An went to see the wounded soldier again.
All the injured have been carried to the county office, and Liu An arranged for the medical team that had been trained before to bandage them.
Liu An then went to the place where the captives were held and found more than fifty Xianbei people with negative loyalty among the captives.
Liu An handed these people over to Zhang Liao and asked him to dispose of them at will in order to vent his hatred.
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