Chapter 82: Fierce Battle
"Hurry, hurry, hurry."
"Go to the Savior's camp at once."
"Kill!"
"Don't get tangled with them."
"Rush over to me!"
At this moment, the gate of the village in Cao's camp was wide open, and countless Han troops poured out like a tide.
Ma Dai crossed the river with more than 10,000 cavalry and raided the rear of Cao Ying, which, like the rear of the Han army, was almost undefended.
In this case, Ma Dai broke dozens of barracks in Cao Ying all the way, after all, the main force of the Cao army had about five times more people than the main force of the Han army, and the number of barracks was also four or five times that of the Han army.
Therefore, even if Ma Dai entered the realm of no one, it took a while to kill the main village of Cao Ying, where there were thousands of people defending, and the two sides fought fiercely.
It happened that Cao Zhen sent more than 10,000 people back to the defense, some of them returned to the camp to fight with Ma Dai, and some of them were based in the front camp and fought with the Pang Dejun who disembarked from the ship, and the two sides became somewhat similar to the Han army on the front line.
The difference is that the Han army is well prepared and strictly defended, so that the Cao army has not broken through the camp until now.
The Cao army encountered an ambush that had been prepared for a long time, and did not expect that the Han army would launch a counter-outflanking, not only was the defense of the village empty, but even the Cao army that returned to the reinforcements did not have time to form a formation, and was dispersed by Pang De.
The battlefield lasted less than two hours, and about 10,000 people in Cao's main village were almost annihilated, and more than 30,000 Han troops gathered into rivers and began to attack the main force of Cao's army.
Cao Zhen could only order the reserves in the rear to change to the front, trying to block the offensive of Pang De and Ma Dai.
But in fact, he had pressed almost all the troops, and the limited reserve was only a few thousand, and the surging sound of horses' hooves was like a roar, and then the foot soldiers led by Pang De rushed directly towards the Cao army that had just formed a formation.
The two sides collided directly, and in an instant, people turned on their backs. Subsequently, Ma Dai's cavalry outflanked left and right, and directly entered from the flank of Cao's army, dividing the battlefield.
With the perfect cooperation of more than 30,000 Han army infantry and cavalry, Cao's rear almost only lasted less than a quarter of an hour before breaking up directly.
Then a large number of Han troops began to continue to charge forward.
Cao Zhen on the front line was already anxious when he learned at this time, he looked at the Han army camp in front that was crumbling and seemed to be about to break but could not be broken, and then looked at the Han army that had been outflanked in the back, and could only order Mingjin.
At this time, it is necessary to mingjin.
Because everyone in the Cao army is storming the camp, and when the Han army behind them pounces, it is not a question of whether they can stop it, but whether the Cao army on the front line should flee or surrender and die less.
I have to say that Cao Zhen does have some level, at least he didn't make any big mistakes in command.
The only problem is that most of the situation is counted to death by Shen Chen, and he is passive every step of the way.
At this moment, a large number of Cao troops heard Mingjin's voice, and they were shocked for a while, and they were about to break through the enemy camp, but they wanted to retreat at this time?
But after the military order was issued, they were forced to withdraw from the battlefield one after another and return to the rear like a tide.
"Whew!"
In the Han army camp, hearing Cao Jun's voice of Mingjin, almost all the remaining Han soldiers instinctively weakened their legs, as if they were about to be paralyzed on the ground.
From this morning's battle to the afternoon, the total number of dead soldiers on both sides has reached tens of thousands, and the front of the Han army camp has become a grinding plate, extending all the way along the wall, and the inside and outside of the camp are all horizontal and vertical corpses, blood flows like a river, and the corpses are piled up like a mountain.
Even Shen Chen had to take the personal guards back and forth to fight the fire, which shows how tragic the battle situation is.
But everything was worth it, the Han army not only let Cao Zhen's sneak attack of more than 10,000 close to 20,000 cavalry not play its due role, but also withstood the onslaught of tens of thousands of Cao troops, buying time for Ma Dai and Pang De to break Cao's camp, and now is the time for them to reap the results.
At this time, there was already chaos outside the camp, and Ma Dai's cavalry arrived at the battlefield first, and then immediately set up a formation, and at a distance of eighty paces from Cao's army, they pulled their cavalry bows one after another, and launched several rounds of shooting.
The range of the cavalry bow is much shorter than that of the infantry bow, but since the stirrup has been used, the range of the Han army's cavalry bow and crossbow has been greatly increased, and soon after a few rounds of arrow rain, the Cao army, which had just retreated and was forming a formation, was shot into a chaotic formation.
Ma Dai glanced back and saw that Pound's main army of foot soldiers was already approaching, so he shouted, and the herald next to him immediately blew the horn, and the cavalry on both sides turned their horses and ran towards the left and right.
As soon as they walked in the middle, Pound's foot soldiers were revealed, and Pound took the lead, riding on his iconic white horse, raising the broadsword in his hand, and rushed straight into Cao's army.
At this time, Cao Jun had just recovered from the rain of arrows, and in the midst of the shouts, shouts, and beatings of officers at all levels, he hurriedly wanted to form a formation on the spot. Pang De took the lead in the battle, and slashed down at a Cao soldier head-on, slashing him to death.
Then he waved the big knife in his hand, like a silver dragon roaring, quite a bit of Guan Yu's youthful style.
Immediately after that, 20,000 Han soldiers poured into the Cao army's formation like a tide, and the Cao army, which had just experienced a bitter battle, was about to face a fierce battle in the Han army in the field in an instant, and was defeated at once.
But fortunately, Cao Zhen ordered the withdrawal of troops in time, and when he saw that the rear army could not resist, he immediately Mingjin, and when Ma Dai and Pang De dealt with his rear army reserves, his front army had quickly withdrawn, and then gathered together and began to adjust the formation.
This made it possible to be defeated even if it was just contacted, and the tens of thousands of troops did not collapse so quickly, and a large number of Cao soldiers and Han soldiers fought together, and there were dense crowds of people on both sides for four or five miles.
After about two quarters of an hour, the formations of the two sides began to be greatly adjusted, and Pang De's side had no formation, so he directly ordered the whole army to assault.
Cao's army was scattered as soon as the formation was placed, and then the people on both sides became more and more chaotic, until the Ma Dai cavalry appeared again to divide the battlefield, and the situation became different.
From the beginning, everyone lined up in a long line and collided with each other, becoming integrated and staggered together. It's like two parallel lines rubbing against each other, and finally it becomes a mess.
The wilderness was full of Cao and Han armies who slashed and killed each other, fighting on the side of the mountains and forests, fighting on the meadows, fighting in earthen pits, fighting on the banks of the Yellow River, some slashing with knives, poking with spears, stabbing with guns, biting with teeth when weapons were lost, pinching each other's necks and buttoning eyeballs.
The entire battlefield was full of blood and cruelty, and the air was filled with the sweet smell of grass and flowers, which was once filled with the sweet smell of grass and flowers, but now it became a strong smell of blood, pungent and blood-gushing.
"Is there anything else that can move?"
"Yes."
"Assemble my team!"
The main camp of the Han army, Shen Chen was covered in blood and panting.
No less than fifty soldiers died under his sword, and his physical strength was also consumed.
What's more, they had only eaten one breakfast in the morning and had not eaten until now.
On the other hand, Cao's army can take turns attacking the camp, and if he can't bear it, he will retreat first, and fill his stomach with the dry food he carries on the battlefield.
So in fact, most of the Han army in the main camp had reached the limit, and when the Cao army retreated, many people were paralyzed on the ground.
However, it was the soldiers who were already safe who could rest, and the soldiers who had the gap still had to find a way to plug the gap first, until the seven or eight camps were barely repaired, and then lay down to rest.
After nearly half an hour, Shen Chen stood on the high oar and looked at the battlefield in the distance.
I saw that the situation on the battlefield had become chaotic now, with 40,000 Cao troops and 30,000 Han troops entangled together, and the wilderness was full of scattered enemy soldiers, and no one had a formation.
In the midst of the noise, Shen Chen keenly noticed that less than three hundred steps away from his headquarters camp, there were about thousands of Cao troops rapidly gathering their formation.
In the center of the Cao army's formation, there was a military flag that was very large, higher and wider than the flag of other generals, standing out from the crowd.
This is the chief general of the Cao army!
For example, Li Jinglong was about to win the battle of Baihegou, and a gust of wind blew down his commander's banner, which directly caused the collapse.
Therefore, the banner of the main general is much larger and more conspicuous than the ordinary general's flag, and will be seen by soldiers on both sides of the enemy.
Seeing this, Shen Chen summoned the generals and pointed to the distance and said: "Allah Cao is in the distance, and he is now fighting with Pound Madai because our soldiers are exhausted and want to repel them first and then destroy us, at this time we must take the initiative and kill him to achieve the final victory." ”
"Governor, give an order, the last general will go to the soup and fight the fire, and he will not give up!"
"Yes, Metropolitan Governor, kill it."
"The last general has already slashed that Cao Zhen, just waiting for the order of the Grand Governor!"
The generals said with a high spirit.
Shen Chen thought for a moment, pointed to the distance and said, "You guys go out immediately and fight with the Cao army, Deng Ai Jiangwei, follow me." ”
"Yui!"
The generals immediately responded.
Deng Ai Jiangwei understood it, and everyone immediately went their separate ways.
At this moment, Cao Zhen Daxu was erected in the rear, constantly urging the soldiers in the rear to quickly form a formation, and he himself was leading thousands of people to guard the rear.
In order to quickly break through the Han army camp, his position was already less than 100 steps away from the Han army camp, and now he must turn the offensive to block Pang De's attack first, and wait until he repels the other party before he can turn back and continue to attack the Han army camp.
This is like a pot of raw rice, you sandwich me and I sandwich you on both sides, everyone feels choked and panicked, but choking, you still have to endure and swallow it, otherwise it will not be you swallowing others, but others swallowing you.
At this time, the gate of the main village of the Han army opened, and the remaining seven or eight thousand Han soldiers had already rushed out and launched a fierce surprise attack on Cao Zhen's Daxu.
The distance between them was already close, and in less than ten minutes, they were close to the front and rushed towards Cao Zhen.
However, soon in the mountains and forests of Leishou Mountain on the east side, two or three thousand ambushed Cao troops appeared from the ground, plus Cao Zhen's own assembled team, and suddenly engaged the Han army that launched a surprise attack in the rear.
After that, there was another scuffle.
But it didn't take long for this situation to be broken.
Sun Li, who had run to the front camp school yard before, gathered his soldiers, broke through the small number of Han troops that Shen Chen had placed behind the front camp to defend, rushed out, and began to attack the rear of the Han army again.
The two sides of the two sides are wrapped up in me, I am in charge of you, and the raw and cooked rice are fried together, which suddenly makes the situation even more chaotic.
At this moment, Cao Zhen was riding on horseback, looking around, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He knew that Shen Chen would not be able to let go of this opportunity, so there was a high probability that he would choose to go out of the camp to fight him, even if they were very tired, but no matter what, the total size of Cao's army was more than 60,000 people.
Cao Zhen had an army of 50,000 in Tongguan, he stayed behind 10,000 and took 40,000 people across the river, and then the imperial court sent Sun Li 8,000, and Xu Huang let Xu Shang come to more than 10,000 cavalry, so that his total strength was actually much higher than that of the Han army.
On the Han army's side, Shen Chen arranged three or four thousand people at the beginning of Leishou Mountain, and then he brought 10,000 people over to defend, and then Ma Dai 10,000 and Pang De 20,000, so that the total strength was more than 40,000 people, compared with the Cao army, there was still a gap of 10,000 people.
So even though Shen Chen carried out anti-outflanking, Cao Zhen still made the right choice many times at the moment of crisis. He knew that Shen Chenjun behind him would definitely open the gate of the camp and rush out after a little rest, so he made a partial ambush.
As the ambush of the Cao army and the Han army fought together, the battlefield situation became extremely anxious, the circle of engagement between the two sides became larger and larger, and the formation was extremely scattered, and it could even be said that there was no formation at all, and the wilderness was full of enemy soldiers.
Even Cao Zhen himself, there are only hundreds of guards left to protect him tightly, and there are constantly Han soldiers who want to make a contribution and attack him, but there are always other Cao soldiers who can intercept them.
In the end, there was a vacuum around Cao Zhen, in addition to the personal guards, there were either corpses or scattered weapons and equipment within a radius of dozens of steps, and a large number of Han troops were shocked by the intercepted Cao army and farther and farther away from Cao Zhen, and no one threatened him anymore.
In this chaos, no one paid attention to the small river flowing around the camp outside the easternmost Han military camp near Leishou Mountain, and no one could have imagined that there was now a long queue divided into three rows, quietly crouching on the gentle slope by the river in turn.
Shen Chen poked his head out.
His location is at the foot of Leishou Mountain, because he is afraid that Cao Jun will be sick and set fire to the mountain, so his camp is so far away from the mountain that the middle camp and the rear camp will not be able to burn the mountain even if they are burned down.
However, at the foot of the mountain, there are many rivers flowing down from the mountains, and these rivers are the Shushui River in later generations, and the Zhongtiao Mountains of Jiangxian County will flow north when they converge.
Shen Chen led about 300 people from the camp in the direction of Leishou Mountain on their far left to here, hiding under the gentle slope.
Behind them is the vast mountainous area of Leishou Mountain, with forests and trees, helping them to block the enemy's vision.
Deng Ai and Jiang Wei also popped out their heads to watch.
Seeing that the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield in the distance were fighting extremely chaotically, the Han army that rushed out of the village did not kill in front of Cao Zhen, but was blocked and intercepted on the periphery.
The good news is that Cao Zhen doesn't have many soldiers and horses around him now, and he is only a hundred steps away from their position.
But Shen Chen did not immediately order an attack, but waited patiently for a moment.
It wasn't until a quarter of an hour later that a fierce group of Han soldiers broke out of the encirclement and killed in the direction of Cao Zhen, when the attention of Cao Zhen's personal guards was all focused on them, Shen Chen clenched the tiger courage knife in his hand, climbed out of the gentle slope, and began to move forward with his waist bent.
Behind him, more than 300 personal guards also clenched the ring-headed knife in their hands, followed him, and began to sneak!
(End of chapter)