Chapter 211: The Forward Retreats
It is normal for Dong Zhuojun to send a small force of cavalry to test such an action, and it is necessary to guard the pass! The guard of Yuyuan Pass is Niu Fu, no matter what the level is, after all, he has followed Dong Zhuo to the east and west for more than ten years, and he still has basic military knowledge. Naturally, he wouldn't watch Wei Xuan's tens of thousands of people blocking the door without making any moves. As a result, scouts from both sides often bumped into each other from the south.
Another day later, Wei Yan was already approaching the Yuyuan Pass, and according to the news from the elite scouts, it seemed that more than a thousand cavalry were coming out of the pass.
Twenty miles west of Yangcheng, in a valley in Dadingling, the remaining veins of Songshan, just after noon, Wei Yan followed Guo Jia's advice to stop the march and start camping, and scattered all the food to cover the front. Along the way, as predicted before the departure, Yuyuan Pass would definitely send cavalry to harass him. But there were already more than a thousand cavalry in front of them, and this was no longer harassment. So Guo Jia persuaded Wei Yan and decided to fight an ambush to fight for the first merit since the army was dispatched!
Outside the Yuyuan Pass, Song Tao was ordered to come to test the advance of the Wei Xuan army, and his scouts had already repelled the advance of the Wei Xuan army dozens of miles away???????????????? Hou has won and lost many battles, but since he appeared near Dadingling with his subordinates, he found that those excellent scouts in Wei Xuan's army basically turned around and ran. In the final analysis, there is still a gap between these rabble in the Central Plains and the elite Xiliang soldiers.
However, when he triumphantly came to the foot of Dadingling Mountain again, the scout who had been scattered in front of him actually hurriedly came back and reported: "Sima, Sima, there are about three thousand soldiers and horses of the guards and thieves about ten miles ahead. ”
Song Tao was very satisfied and continued to ask the visitor: "How many cavalry and how many infantry?" ”
The scout said proudly, "Except for those scouts who are far away, all of them are infantry. We left people in the trees in the valley, and they didn't even notice them. ”
The corners of Song Tao's mouth turned up, and he turned his head and shouted to the Xiliang cavalry who were resting on the ground around him: "Get up, get ready to work." That Xu Rong and Lu Bu slaughtered in Hebei, and even Hua Xiong and Hu Zhen took advantage of Luyang, and this time it was our turn. ”
Hearing this, the Xiliang soldiers who were staggering on the ground immediately got up from the ground, then quickly jumped onto their horses, and then began to assemble.
Two officers who looked like military marquis rode to Song Tao and asked with a smile: "Sima, how many thieves are here?" ”
"It's just 3,000 infantry, and if you want to come to Wei Xuan, you also want to test it. But since we have encountered it, don't let it go. ”
One of the military marquis said: "Sima, this Dadingling valley is several miles long, and the forests on both sides are luxuriant, so it is impossible to say that there are thieves and soldiers on both sides of the ambush. ”
Song Tao nodded: "So we are here to wait for those thieves to show their heads before fighting, now that they have entered the valley, we can see them in half an hour at most according to the speed of the march, if they delay too much time, there must be an ambush." But then again, even if a total of 3,000 infantry is ambushed, what can help us? Back then, following General Niu in Hedong, 5,000 of us were ambushed by 50,000 people on the other side, didn't we rush out? Although we lost a lot that time, the thieves lost at least 20,000, hehe......"
The marquis of the two armies nodded their heads again and again, and they also participated in the last time they were in Hedong. Compared with the terrain of that day, this Dadingling can only be regarded as average, the key is that there are only 3,000 thieves, even if it is an ambush, what can it be?
It was only soon that they found that their fears were unnecessary, because the thieves marched exactly as they had guessed, and it was three thousand men marching together, and there was no division at all. When Wei Yan's forward army was still nearly two miles away from the exit of the Dadingling Valley, the two military marquis couldn't wait any longer and kept urging: "Sima, hurry up, when they get rid of the valley, it will be difficult to capture the prisoners if they scatter and flee at that time." ”
Song Tao thought about it, and finally gave the order to set off, and more than a thousand Xiliang cavalry re-entered this valley with a width of about two miles.
After a while, they ran into the expected thief soldiers, and to Song Tao's surprise, Wei Yan, the vanguard of the Wei Xuan Army, was actually in the team!
Through this period of inquiry, they also knew something about several captains under Wei Xuan, especially Zhang Liao and Wei Yan were the earliest generals.
Song Taoqiang couldn't hold back the surprise, and before he patted the horse, he was ready to capture Wei Yan alive and vent his anger for Hua Xiong, so that Wei Xuan could exchange the war horse and show his face in front of Xiangguo.
???????????????? And the reaction of the opposing general's was also very satisfactory to Song Tao, Wei Yan saw that the Xiliang cavalry that suddenly appeared was obviously a little unprepared, but after experiencing the initial panic, he immediately ordered the whole army to set up. Wei Yan took the lead in standing at the front of the team.
Song Tao nodded with satisfaction, sure enough, Wei Xuan's vanguard still has a bit of a general's demeanor, and he is not surprised, but since he met him, Song Tao naturally can't be a general, he can only be a prisoner. Song Tao rushed forward first, but Wei Yan on the opposite side also stood still, constantly comforting the war horse under his crotch, more than a dozen personal soldiers surrounded Wei Yan, and behind him were spearmen who came up one after another.
When, Song Tao's spear stabbed out, Wei Yanju grabbed it, and he couldn't tell the high.
When, Song Tao's spear smashed down again, Wei Yan was a little in a hurry, but he still barely blocked it.
When, this time Song Tao shot faster, Wei Yan was even more flustered, and he almost didn't block it.
The smile on the corner of Song Tao's mouth was even worse, the young general in front of him looked pretty good, but Song Tao was confident that he would definitely be able to win it within twenty rounds, and now he needed to wash it up, so that Wei Xuan's soldiers knew how powerful the Xiliang soldiers were.
When, this time, Wei Yan didn't seem to wait for Song Tao to launch with all his might, and the war horse began to retreat. At the same time, the Xiliang soldiers behind also caught up and fought with Wei Yan's personal soldiers.
However, Wei Yan shouted at this moment: "Quickly retreat, exit the valley, and return to the camp!" ”
The spearmen who rushed up behind hesitated for a moment when they heard this, and then began to run away, while the more than 2,000 infantry in front of them had already run wildly.
Dangdang, Songtao's attack was sharper, and Wei Yan and a dozen of his own soldiers blocked the advancing Xiliang soldiers, buying time for the infantry behind to escape.
Song Tao did not chase after him, seeing Wei Yan once again panicked to block his spear and retreat, Song Tao stopped the attack, sat on horseback, and gave Wei Yan to his men, he wanted to annihilate this group of thieves, and he had to chase all the way to Wei Yan's camp, so he was ready to save his strength and go to Wei Yan's camp to give the enemy a thunderous blow in front of all the soldiers to hit the enemy's morale.
And Wei Yan's subordinates gave Song Tao a reason to despise him, because it was clear that his subordinates didn't chase after him much, and Wei Yan and his own soldiers broke off for them, but they ran back desperately regardless of the general's life or death. Forget it, there are still some people who simply throw away their weapons and run to the mountains and forests on both sides, obviously preparing to be deserters.
Song Tao saw such an enemy, he was not interested at all, he was very curious about where Wei Yan's camp was, how far away it was from here, would he not even have a basic rejection of horses, if that was the case, he could completely annihilate this Wei Xuan's forward.
Although Wei Yan and the others worked very hard, Song Tao still didn't make another move, but watched the formalities and lovers take turns to tease Wei Yan, advancing while fighting, always maintaining a distance of about a mile from Wei Yan's infantry, so that those guys didn't dare to relax and not despair. In this way, the two sides chased for about two miles, Wei Yan's 3,000 men escaped at least four or five hundred people halfway, and thirty or forty people were caught up and poked to death on the hillside by the really bored Xiliang soldiers.
Wei Yan looked at the fallen soldiers on both sides, and looked at the Xiliang cavalry who kept coming up to challenge, with anger in his eyes, but he seemed to be powerless, so he could only reluctantly deal with this, and continued to retreat for three ???????????????? Lidi, Wei Yan finally saw hope, because his camp was ahead, and at this moment, his personal guards also suffered casualties. Xiliang Bing seemed to have had enough of the tricks and began to be ruthless. The fight between the two sides began to be fierce.
Song Tao has been watching the excitement from the sidelines, but he is not completely watching the play, while chasing and sending people to observe the surroundings, and at the same time collecting the scouts who have dispersed, he found that there does not seem to be an ambush, so he moved forward with confidence.
Wei Yan finally saw his subordinates retreat into the camp, and finally Wei Yan showed a bright smile and no longer hid his strength, jumped over a Xiliang soldier who came up to play with him, and then the spear and a dozen of his own personal soldiers blocked the camp gate, and there seemed to be someone at the camp gate, and a group of archers began to hide behind the wall and fire arrows at the Xiliang cavalry, suppressing the Xiliang soldiers outside a stone's throw away. And in the camp, there were constantly spearmen coming out, and they began to set up formations on both sides of Wei Yan and the others.
Song Tao looked at Wei Yan's camp with some surprise, this is the camp on the march, and it stands to reason that it should be destroyed after it is used. However, the camp was not only intact, but also seemed to be strong, and it might cost to storm it.
Song Tao finally realized that something was wrong, and then looked at the smile on the corner of Wei Yan's mouth, and then looked at the infantry who gradually regained their true stability, and the enemies who ran back from the mountains and forests on both sides one after another, he felt that he might have been ambushed, but even if there was an ambush, what about it? The terrain here is open enough, and the width alone is at least nearly two miles, and it is really whimsical that three thousand weak infantry want to ambush his one thousand cavalry!
And in Song Tao's opinion, Wei Yan has to rely on the archers to suppress the formation when he puts out the spear formation, which is obviously defending, since he is ambushing the enemy, why do the generals only want to protect their own camp? So why did the soldiers on both sides who had already fled come back? Isn't this coming up to die? Let them go ahead, and now of course it is impossible to watch them walk into the camp safely like this.
Song Tao had a lot of questions, and so did the Xiliang soldiers, and there were more and more enemy soldiers in the mountains and forests on both sides, and they didn't seem to be the enemies who had fled before, because these people were still organized, and when they got closer, they were still waving the flag.