Chapter 670: Overturning
In the third year of Taiwu, on March 13, the wasteland behind the Tianjing Pass.
In the morning, He Jin, who had already marched to Tianjing Pass with a large army, suddenly received a military report from outside the pass.
"Lu Bu of the state army was killed in battle, and Captain Wu Fu of Changshui was captured."
At that time, He Jin was inspecting the various armies, and when he saw that the morale of each battalion was high, he was happy, and suddenly heard these two thunderbolts on a sunny day.
He didn't understand, wasn't Lu Bu still a big army before? Why did he just rush to Tianjing Pass and kill the generals?
and the capture of Wufu, He Jin was even more heartbroken. Wufu is not only his own humerus, but also his own martial courage.
Now that the courage has been captured by the Taishan army, how can He Jin still have the courage to stay here?
Even if Tianjing Guan was in danger, there was no way to give He Jin the slightest sense of security at this moment. So without thinking about it, he ordered the army to move back, preparing to withdraw from the south of Tianjing Pass to the wild king in the rear.
The Kanto Junxiu, who was on the shelf, couldn't hold back anymore at this moment, and persuaded He Jin to think twice, saying that the change of the army's order was a sign of defeat.
They said that the officers of the three armies set out from Luoyang, and after such a long journey, they finally arrived at Tianjing Pass to prepare for rest, and suddenly ordered the army to retreat south, what does this make everyone think?
The army is not afraid to walk, it is afraid to take the wrong road.
When the time comes, the three armies will be resentful, and the prestige of the general will inevitably be at the bottom, who will be able to restrain such a huge army at that time?
It can be said that He Jin's behavior made the staff watching from the wall can't help but give sincere advice.
If you are tossed around like this, they don't have to think about retreating to Kyoto safely.
He Jin is not stupid, of course he understands what the staff means, but at this time, there was a sudden drum beat outside the pass, and then the Han army inside the pass reported to He Jin, saying that the Taishan army had appeared outside the pass and was watching the battle.
And thinking that the enemy army was close at this moment, He Jin did not hesitate, regardless of the opposition of many people, and ordered the army to retreat south immediately.
And sure enough, when He Jin's military order spread throughout the three armies, the morale of the battalion officials was greatly depressed.
They jumped up and scolded He Jin bitterly, scolding him for having a chariot, but these people could only use their feet to hurry, and the straw sandals were broken, and finally reached the ground, and they didn't have time to drink the water and let them go back the same way, isn't this a pastime brothers?
But there is no way, the order still has to be listened to, and the road still has to be walked.
Fortunately, the army was still on the march, and it did not disperse and camp, otherwise it would have been tossed again.
In this way, the front team of the Kwantung army changed to the rear team, and the back team became the front team, and it was still the same road, rushing towards Yewang City.
At this time, although everyone was tired and hungry, there was still a hint of joy in their hearts, that is, no matter what, there was no need to fight this battle.
It's nothing more than bleeding, sweating, and breaking straw sandals.
But it turned out to be just a luxury.
When the 50,000 Kwantung army traveled south along the Danshui River, in fact, the defenders of Tianjing Pass knew that they had been abandoned by the general.
So in desperation, after the defenders of the pass discussed, they opened the gate and surrendered to the Taishan army outside.
The Taishan army outside is just some cruises, after learning that the Tianjing Pass has landed, it will immediately fly to the rear, so it can be seen that the pursuers of the Taishan Army will chase along the Tianjing Pass all the way.
But it was not the Taishan Army on the Shangdang side that really dealt a fatal blow to these Kwantung Army, but the Eastern Route Army that had been ignored by He Jin before.
The Eastern Route Army was left behind in Yecheng by Zhang Dan, and he promoted the four armies of "Tianwu", "Xuanwu", "Dingwu" and "Yiwu" to go south to the court, and then they have been standing still.
And after Zhang Chong found out, he didn't send anyone to urge him, giving Zhang Dan full trust.
He believed that Zhang Dan would not let him down.
And sure enough, when He Jin's Kwantung army finally moved north from Heyang, Zhang Dan led the four armies day and night, first breaking the local pride outside the Gongxian county, and then breaking the Hanoi Taishou Xue Hong in Xiuwu.
After that, the soldiers were divided into two routes, and they continued to go south with the two armies of "Tianwu" and "Xuanwu", and successively broke Huaixian, Pinggao, and Wenxian to Heyang City.
The other route was Pan Zhang, the commander of the "Dingwu" army, and Li Fu, the commander of the "Yiwu" army, each with 5,000 soldiers, and divided their troops to the west, penetrating directly into Yewang, so as to block the back road of He Jin's Kwantung Army.
Originally, Zhang Dan's plan was to take down the Yewang, and then attack the Kwantung Army back and forth with the main force of the Shangdang, but who knew that these Kwantung Army would run back?
As a result, an encounter broke out directly outside the Wild King Castle.
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On the Qin Plain, on a soil slope, Pan Zhang, who was the lord of the Dingwu army, and Li Fu, the lord of the Yiwu army, stood on the left and the right, and each brought a line of soldiers behind them.
At this time, Pan Zhang was squinting, wearing a basin collar armor, and holding a pergola in his hand, observing the army marching south along the Danshui in the distance.
Years of military career and domination have long made the former big river Kou experienced into an outstanding general.
In the past two years, Pan Zhang can be said to have risen to the top, first got the opportunity to go to Liaodong, made many military exploits along the way in Zhang Dan, and then transferred to the general of the left army when he came back.
Later, he encountered the opportunity to adapt the Taishan Army, and because he was a general in the right army system, he was naturally trained as a military master.
Although Zhang Chong has been dealing with the signs of the mountains in the army, he still has to divide the position of the commander of the 12th Army according to the strength of the Marshal Department of the Fifth Army.
The number of the twelve army lords in the forbidden army is roughly distributed in this way, of which the middle guard army accounts for six, the left army system accounts for three people, the right army system accounts for one person, the front army system accounts for one person, and the rear army system accounts for one person.
And General Pan Zhang, because he had just been promoted to the first general of the Right Army, happened to be selected as the commander of the Dingwu Army. You must know that Xie Bicai, who is more senior than him, has made a general a foreign forbidden army, and Wei Bojun has become a military master.
It can be seen how lucky Pan Zhang is.
As for Li Fu next to him, there was nothing lucky or unlucky, because he was originally the twelve cavalry generals of the Central Protector Army, and he should have been promoted to the military master.
At this time, the two looked at the Kwantung Army marching casually and smiled at each other.
The mood of the two of them is not too beautiful, and they originally thought that what they were assigned to them was the task of defending the city without oil and water, but who would have expected that this luck would come and it would not be able to stop it.
Li Fu and Pan Zhang worked together for the first time, and he modestly asked Pan Zhang what his military strategy was.
Then I saw Pan Zhang raising his horsewhip, pointing at the Han army in the distance, and said contemptuously:
"What kind of military strategy do you want for this stinky fish and rotten shrimp, let's kill it directly."
Li Fu was stunned for a moment, then laughed, and then said arrogantly:
"Our old Li also has this intention."
So, the two of them first combined the cavalry of the two armies, and then let their respective lieutenants begin to slowly press over from this side.
Under the dispatch of the two, the army of 10,000 people advanced and retreated in an orderly manner, and appeared on the battlefield in the sound of drums and horns.
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There are 2,000 cavalry of the two armies of Dingwu and Yiwu, in addition to the old army of the former cavalry system, a large number of them have been incorporated into Pingzhou Wuhuan, these people have long been removed from the loose tactics of the grassland under the training of the Taishan army.
At this moment, Pan Zhang stood in the first row of the cavalry, leading the thousands of people under his command to press the speed of the horse, and slowly approached the Kwantung Army opposite.
The same is true of Li Fu on the right, the two armies combined to form a huge wide plane, pressing towards the enemy together.
When the enemy began to stir slowly, Pan Zhang began to raise the speed of his horse and trot, and finally in the sound of the horn in unison, the assault cavalry of all fronts began to let go of their guns and gallop wildly.
At this moment, in the noisy sound of horses' hooves, the military orders of the cavalry generals could no longer be heard, and all the knights stared at the flags of each row and charged after them.
The smoke and dust that rolled up the sky directly covered the sky.
And the Kwantung Army opposite them was completely in chaos in this sudden attack.
At this moment, the person in charge of this department is called Guo Xin, who is from the Guo family in Luoyang, and has been a military official of the Northern Army for generations.
Born in a family of soldiers, Guo Xin was cautious, and during the march, he still arranged the baggage cart on the east side, so that if there were enemy troops on the eastern plain, they could also use the cart as a barrier to resist horses.
It's not that these carts can withstand any cavalry charge, in fact, their role is at most to slow down the momentum of the enemy cavalry.
But that's enough, with this buffer, the Han army that has come back to its senses will be able to organize resistance.
It can be said that although the upper class of the Kanto region is corrupt, in the middle and lower classes, the children of Gyeonggi are still very good, and it is still the region with the richest talent pool in the world.
In fact, it was Guo Xin's arrangement that made the assault cavalry of the Taishan army obviously give up this hard bone, but swept the troops away from other armies.
The method of cavalry combat is first and foremost to form a curtain in the first wave of impact, and only when people rush people, then chaos will spread.
At this time, Guo Xin and one hundred and ten people silently crowded behind the car formation, looking at the scene in front of them in horror.
Those blitzkrieg Taishan troops are wantonly slaughtering the Kwantung soldiers by the river.
Everywhere there was the neighing of horses, the sound of iron and gold, the sound of breaking bones and bones, and the sound of falling horses and scolding.
The originally peaceful Qin Horizon became purgatory in an instant.
Most of the Kwantung Army were outlaws in the market, and they didn't have much military training, and at this moment, they had no ability to counterattack in the face of the Taishan Army's ring-headed sword.
Blood stained this killing field, and the Kwantung Army fell on the river beach one after another, and even many people tried to run into Danshui, but except for a few who escaped to the other side of the river, everyone else drowned in Danshui.
And the killing did not stop, when those scattered Kwantung Army was defeated, the Taishan Army quickly pointed its troops at the Kwantung soldiers behind the car formation.
Guo Xinqin was on the front line, loudly encouraging morale, asking everyone to hold the car quietly, wait for the battle, and vow to fight to the death with the Taishan army.
And these officials present also knew that if they left the camp at this moment, they would be a dead end, and they could only be fought by the water.
Subsequently, the Taishan army cavalry really killed, and they did not attack hard, and directly shot with bows and arrows on the periphery.
Soon, the Kwantung Army on the periphery could not withstand the rain of arrows, and the formation became more and more loose.
At this time, Guo Xin jumped up with a spear, put on double armor, and with a few subordinates, he directly rushed out of the car formation and counterattacked the Taishan army outside.
The Han soldiers behind him were infected by Guo Xin, and rushed out of the camp one after another, trying to strike a Jedi blow.
But unfortunately, what they encountered was the Tarzan army that had fought all kinds of battles.
These assault horses saw these Han soldiers rushing out, and they did not stiffen their heads, and they rushed to the other side. When these people couldn't run, these people directly changed their bows and arrows, and rushed over with their horses.
One blow of strength, then decline, three and exhaustion.
But in fact, most people are just one booster, and there are no two and three, so when the Han soldiers ran out of brain fever, they didn't kill the Taishan army, and the anger was vented.
So when the Taishan army changed horses and collided with them, the Han soldiers who were directly killed were crushed.
Half an hour later, when Pan Zhang and Li Fu moved south with their assault horses, the ground on this stretch of river beach was already full of dead and wounded Han soldiers. Guo Xin, the official of the northern army, was even more left to lie on this land with a half-exhausted body by the head of the owl, and became a ghost in a foreign land.
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Following the destruction of the rear, the bloody battle followed to the south.
The Kanto region here will be Yanshi Zhang Chou.
After the most prominent surname in Kyoto, his reputation is not good. It is said that this man was carrying the bride's letter in his arms when he went on the expedition, and he was still thinking about his unborn child on the way.
But amorous people are not necessarily timid.
When the fighting in the north was boiling, Zhang Chou realized that something was wrong. He first reported to the Chinese army in front of him, and then took the wagons as a battalion on the spot, ready to stand firm and wait for reinforcements.
It was also here that Pan and Li encountered stubborn resistance.
That Zhang Chou is really a character, and he appeared on the front line directly in a big hat.
persuaded him left and right, saying that this big feather was too conspicuous, and at first glance it was the main general, and asked him to take off the big dan and feather helmet.
But Zhang Chou laughed awe-inspiringly, and he pointed to himself and said aloud:
"If they regret death, they can retreat on their own, and Zhang regards this place as my grave!"
The general has always been the courage of the three armies, and with such generals who are not afraid of death, how can the officers of the whole battalion be afraid of death? Isn't it death? Then go to the country together.
They relied on the car formation and shield to resist the charge of the Taishan army, and after a moment, the Taishan army failed to loosen the car battalion.
At this time, Li Fu made a quick decision and suggested that Pan Zhang abandon the battalion with him and go directly to He Jin's Chinese army.
Pan Zhang was a persuasive person, and he was not verbose, and directly took the remaining 1,800 horsemen directly around Zhang Chou's camp and went straight to the rear.
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The sound of killing in the rear reached the Chinese army, and He Jin, who was still lying leisurely on the chariot, woke up in a flash.
He urgently summoned his staff to ask what he said.
Some people say that at this moment, Yewang City is already close to the left, it is better to enter the city first and hold on, and it is really impossible to fight with the Taishan army outside.
Someone over there said that their 50,000 troops are here, and they still want to run to Yewang City? Now they run away without even figuring out how many enemy troops there are?
But someone said something frustrating, and a face-dressing husband said abruptly:
"If the army is like this, what can it expect to win? Let's not take advantage of the future of the enemy army, enter the Wild King City first, and when the enemy army arrives, we can't run even if we want to. When the time comes, we will really die in a foreign land, no one will collect the corpses, and it will be difficult for the lonely souls to return! ”
In the end, this person was even more tearful and said sadly:
"The old wives of the family are all buried in the north, and now their souls are in a foreign land, isn't it sad?"
This old husband's words directly aroused the dissatisfaction of some young men, and they accused:
"My generation has been blessed by the Han family for a hundred years, and now I don't even dare to fight to the death? So, what are we doing here that day? You can kill it directly in Kyoto! ”
This is actually hypocrisy, they are about to become the retainers of the He family, how can they have a face and say what the Han family is good for.
The two sides were arguing and shouting, He Jin couldn't decide for a long time, and finally clapped his legs.
So he said.