Chapter 297: Attack from all sides
So when Guan Yu saw that Zhang Fei, who rushed into the enemy formation, was almost head to head with Zhang Liao, who had no enemy in front, Guan Yu was not calm. Seeing that Ran Min was actually pressing the enemy to retreat like Zhang Fei, he didn't hold it back, holding the reins in one hand and the Qinglong Glaive in the other, and rushing through the enemy formation at the fastest speed. The pro-soldiers behind him couldn't care about smoothing the entire enemy formation, so they could only follow closely, and the result was that the originally thin crane wings were cut from the middle, and a part of Zhang Liao's Chinese army turned right directly and pounced on the thin crane wings when they saw this.
After Zhang Fei and Zhang Liao joined forces, they quickly turned right with Ran Min and others, and quickly cut off the crane wing on the right side, and then turned the horse's head from the outside to kill it. There were about three or four thousand people in the entire crane wing, and Guan Yu first cut it from the middle, and then Zhang Liaobu approached the involution, killed it, and then rolled it back, and soon it was a mess.
It's not that the Huns are not brave enough, but that there are three or four thousand enemies hidden in the short 5,000-strong heavy cavalry, who can stand this. And one side is light cavalry, the other is heavy cavalry, and the heavy cavalry side also has bilateral stirrups to provide flexible control.
Soon Zhang Liao cut off the enemy with almost no losses???????????????? of the two crane wings, then the Huns found that their enemy did not continue the attack, but gradually moved away. This is to take advantage of the situation and run.
Seeing this, the leaders of several other small tribes were willing to stop there, and they didn't put up any crane wing formations, and directly pressed the whole army. The two sides chased me in the dark night, catching up only four or five miles, Zhang Liao's cavalry seemed to be worried that the enemy could not catch up, and turned around in a uniform burst of surprise and rushed directly into the light cavalry team of the Huns, this time it was not to cut the crane wing of the crane wing array, but from the middle of the two branches, cut into the phalanx a hundred steps after turning directly to the right, and then turn around, purely by virtue of Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, Zhang Liao and Ran Min four people of the four brave in front of the road, and then turn to the rear to block, in the enemy cavalry to come and go freely.
So the three or four thousand men at the front of the small tribal coalition lost contact with the large group like the bark of a tree that had been stripped from a tree, and then they were beheaded and dispersed.
And Zhang Liao and the others quickly harvested after completing the cutting, and then evacuated! This was repeated several times, and all the Huns were so angry that they did not notice at all that the valley in front of them began to change from five or six li wide to three or four li.
Not all the cavalry could be lined up, in fact, they were also worried that the thickness of the team was not enough, and Zhang Liao would lead the heavy cavalry to directly penetrate the middle section.
Seeing that the rear went to Beiwa and shouted, the enemy's night attack goal had been achieved, and if he chased it at this time, he would definitely suffer. However, the unified dispatch was not completed before, and now the temporary order is afraid that others will not obey it. He had no choice but to order himself to fall down and follow up as cover, even if the enemy was ambushed in the middle of the way.
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The enemy did have an ambush, when several small tribes followed Zhang Liao's tiger and leopard cavalry for about twenty miles, suddenly two miles on the right flank of the direction of the advance a 6,000-strong infantry phalanx suddenly lit torches, they spared about three or four thousand Huns before sending troops, slowly squeezing towards the Huns in a rhythm. And Zhang Liao didn't run at the moment, turned around and turned over and killed back, and the infantry and cavalry showed a tendency to turn corners against the three or four thousand Hun light cavalry at the front.
Qubei was also startled when he saw the sudden ambush in the back, because the battle formation of the Huns on the way to the pursuit had been stretched and thinned, and if it was the same as the enemy cavalry in front, it was easy to be stopped and cut off, so it was very dangerous for the people in front to be attacked from both sides.
So Qubei also ordered to speed up the march, arrive at the battlefield as soon as possible, thicken the battle formation, and force the enemy back. Yes, even if he was forced to retreat, after seeing the enemy's bravery and slick war book, he did not expect to be able to defeat the enemy before the king of Hutu arrived on the battlefield.
When he got closer, he stopped suddenly, for the scout told him that the ambush was an infantry phalanx, about five or six thousand men. To his relief, the infantry was able to inflict some damage on the charging cavalry, but it was more likely to be directly engulfed and swept by the cavalry.
As Qubei thought, he soon saw that the Huns in front of him quickly thickened the ranks and pressed towards the infantry phalanx, which soon overwhelmed the other side.
It was only soon that he realized that the situation was not right, and that the infantry of the enemy, who had been overwhelmed, seemed to be pressing the Hun cavalry to retreat, and distanced themselves from their companions in front. Go to humbly rub your eyes desperately, and ???????????????? It is suspected that it is a hallucination caused by the swaying of torches in the dark night. Because this is again the enemy's cutting tactic, and it was done with infantry, the cavalry in front of it is dangerous.
But as the distance narrowed, he heard the clear sound of swords slapping and slapping into flesh, and the familiar cries of the Huns, and the whole team retreated faster and faster.
Zhang Liao, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu, and Ran Min privately marched together, and they would soon be eaten by the Hun cavalry cut by Tai Shici. Then, taking advantage of the fact that the Huns were pressed by Tai Shici to retreat, he rushed forward against the enemy from the right side, rushed out about a hundred steps and quickly turned left and cut into the enemy formation.
It's ready to cut again! Qubei was frightened to see in the rear, and while beckoning his own people to set up the formation, he asked people to inform those small tribes, and at the same time thicken the simulation, occupy his own left side, and no longer let the enemy's heavy cavalry cut and then strangle.
In fact, there is no need to be humiliated, the leaders of these Xiongnu tribes may not be as brave as they are to be humiliated and others, but years of battlefield experience have allowed them to quickly make judgments and quickly complete the formation.
It's just that before they could get close to the Huns in front, there was a sudden shout of killing on their left side, and then they were surprised to see five thousand cavalry, and those people seemed to be wearing armor as well! Heavy cavalry, heavy cavalry, for this night attack, Wei Xuan actually prepared 10,000 heavy cavalry.
Go and smile bitterly, if Wei Xuan's 20,000 cavalry are all heavy cavalry, this will not be able to fight. The frightened little tribes in front of them were obviously even more frightened than going to Humility! Because what that cold armor hides is murderous aura! The tribal coalition army of nearly 20,000 people has been pulled, cut, and strangled several times and has suffered heavy casualties, and most of the first thought in the face of the sudden killing of the enemy is to retreat quickly, retreat and go to Beibu to stick to the camp There is still hope, and the rest can only wait for reinforcements from King Hutu and Qiangqu.
It was Wei Tong who suddenly came out, his team actually didn't have so many heavy cavalry, but seeing Zhang Liao's heavy cavalry killing in all directions, he also wanted to use heavy cavalry to give the enemy a head-on attack, and then use light cavalry to pursue. So he re-entered the enemy line first.
At present, the more than 10,000 people on the battlefield have not been counted, but the Wei Xuan army has dispatched 16,000 people, and they have completely gained the advantage through equipment and tactics, and they are forced to slowly retreat.
Then he heard the rumbling sound of horses' hooves from the northeast, where should be the reinforcements of King Hutu, and he immediately sent a herald to inform him, hoping that King Hutu would crush the enemy's ambush on the left front, so that as long as the small tribe in the middle could hold out for a while, then he could lead his men to rush over from the right to kill the first infantry ambush.
However, before his herald arrived, the entire camp at the foot of Daqing Mountain was in flames, and Du Peng was leading the five thousand Flying Tiger Army to light a few torches and throw them into the Huns' tents! The cavalry used to be ignited almost instantaneously. Several small tribes lived in tens of thousands of people, and the tents were large in size and spectacular in burning.
Go and watch as the fire burns from the northeast to the southwest, approaching his camp! He had to go back to the rescue, where he had most of the wealth that he and the whole tribe had except for cattle and sheep.
More than 10,000 people???????????????? The U-turn made the already lively battlefield even more chaotic, and the small tribes that were being attacked watched their camps be engulfed in flames. Now there is a good chance that they will face the onslaught of a fourth enemy. The whole team became even more disorganized.
He angrily asked people to recall the five thousand men in the south, and chased after this cavalry that set fire everywhere with his own men, so that he could wait for him to just leave the battlefield, and behind him was the small tribes who were fighting hard and another infantry phalanx appeared, or an ambush! It turned out that the Wei Xuan Army really sent so many soldiers and horses to the foot of Daqing Mountain through the blockade of the scouts!
Qubei was no longer in the mood to care, he was ostensibly going to catch up with the light cavalry who set the fire, but in fact he had already retreated, and was ready to go directly to join the king of Hutu, only then would he feel safe. The arsonist army did not seem to know that twenty miles to the north was the king's tent of King Hutu, so he felt that it was worth abandoning the small tribe from both sides.
With the departure of Qubei and the arrival of a new enemy infantry phalanx, these small tribal alliances, which originally numbered nearly 10,000 people, were no longer ready to fight. Because now the number of enemies on the battlefield has been fully surpassed, and the equipment is even more incomparable, and now the infantry phalanx that appeared first is like a hedgehog that pierces people, while advancing, relying on the divine arm bow to shoot the enemy, as long as the enemy dares to step forward, the Mo knife soldiers will show the cold and shining Mo knife!
Those who came into contact with the heavy cavalry were frightened, and those who were behind were equally uncomfortable, and the ambushes that appeared one after another had completely made them lose hope of victory. Especially when the camp was burned down, where are the friends of their tribe, the old and young, the women and children, and almost all the wealth!
Seeing that Qubei was leaving, he was about to be surrounded by enemies on three sides, and the surviving tribal leaders decided to surrender, and the Han people's request was only to let them withdraw and merge with the state, as long as the war horses were still there, the cattle and sheep were still there, and everywhere on the grassland was home!
Don't you see the trip to Beidu? They are all out tonight, but this is the majority of them, and there will be no reinforcements if they continue, and it is very likely that the people waiting for them will be exterminated!